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Lionel Blue

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught."

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Amber Hurdle

"Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church."

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Amber Hurdle

"The birth of Jesus Christ is a reminder of what Adam and Eve failed to do in the Garden of Eden."

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Amber Hurdle

"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."

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Amber Hurdle

"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."

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Amber Hurdle

"Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool."

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Amber Hurdle

"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical."

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Amber Hurdle

"Christianity made us think there's one heaven."

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"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."

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

Religion

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Lionel Blue
"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."

Life

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Lionel Blue
"At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming."

Progress

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Lionel Blue
"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."

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Lionel Blue
"Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent."

Friendship

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Lionel Blue
"The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge."

Spiritual

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

Being

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

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Lionel Blue
"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."

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

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