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Lionel Blue

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


— Lionel Blue


#him #i #like #much #paul

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


— Lionel Blue


#ended #good #good things #grateful #i

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


#halls #i #learnt #lecture #lessons

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.


— Lionel Blue


#fell #i #literally #oxford #quakers

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.


— Lionel Blue


#infant #judaism #recovered #reformist #version

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.


— Lionel Blue


#go #i #retreats #still

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.


— Lionel Blue


#christian #far #ghetto #go #i

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.


— Lionel Blue


#breakdown #certainly #edge #gay #i

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.


— Lionel Blue


#comfortable #i #jew #worshipping

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.


— Lionel Blue


#because #christianity #divide #i #i do






About Lionel Blue






Did you know about Lionel Blue?

He has also been diagnosed as having Parkinson's Disease. Blue regained his faith while at the University of Oxford when he found some resolution to severe personal conflicts regarding his sexuality at a Quaker meeting. Broadcasting career
For more than 25 years Blue has been a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

In July 1998 Blue was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University. He is also widely respected in the UK as a journalist cook and author. Lionel Blue (born 6 February 1930) is a British Reform rabbi journalist and broadcaster.

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