Lionel Blue Quotations

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.