Lionel Blue

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#discrimination #insults #jews #luther #martin

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

— Lionel Blue

#during #encountered #home #households #i

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

— Lionel Blue

#cracked #early #i #idolatry #open

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christian #fully #god #himself #jesus

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#deserted #favour #god #goodness #i

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

— Lionel Blue

#come #good #good things #i #just

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

— Lionel Blue

#i #plusses #problems #really #see

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. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#fear #fed #fed up #i #jewish

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #did #encounter #found #happened

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#am #because #begun #crumbling #enjoy