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Lionel Blue

Lionel Blue

British Clergyman

Born: Feb 6, 1930

Died: Dec 19, 2016

Christian Christianity Good Me Own Religion

Related authors: Beilby Porteus Charles Spurgeon Hudson Taylor Jeremy Taylor John Henry Newman Jonathan Sacks N. T. Wright Thomas Traherne

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. Lionel Blue

Good Grateful Good Things Christianity Reform Ended Rabbi Many Things

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. Lionel Blue

Other Sympathy Like Stick Halls Learnt Lecture End Pity Lessons

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. Lionel Blue

Love Best Lover Physical Could Allowed Falling Falling In Love Get

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. Lionel Blue

Soul Problems Seen See Spiritually Were Began Really

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. Lionel Blue

Good Admitted Could Good Works Were Eggs Full Meat Works Early

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. Lionel Blue

Christianity Evidence Scholarship Him Practically Practising How Real Manifest Themselves Speaking Beliefs Based Lives Jesus Christians

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

War Home World School Christianity Households Encountered Second World War Second World War

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. Lionel Blue

Religion Saw Open Idolatry Cracked Repression Again Stalinism Early

So many plusses, so many minuses. Lionel Blue

Many

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. Lionel Blue

Christian Retreats Still Go

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. Lionel Blue

Though Like Him Understand Begun Paul Much

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. Lionel Blue

Will Lover Worshipped Only Him Always Being Loved Her

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. Lionel Blue

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. Lionel Blue

Birthday Enemies Wish Teens Surprise Than Nicer

It's more fun to watch without joining in. Lionel Blue

More Joining Without Fun Watch

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned. Lionel Blue

Work Me Sometimes Girl Young Way Bless Concerned Return Accept Offer Transaction Young Girls Which Them Satisfying Seats

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. Lionel Blue

Gay Together World Seen Honestly Other Pleased Ghetto Though Out Religious Kindly More Taken Well Comfortable Limitations Am Been Very Cancel Each Lived Now

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