Lionel Blue Quotes

There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

Benjamin Disraeli might be an excellent Christian but he is assuredly a detestable pagan.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

The struggle for religion will be a struggle beside which the struggle for freedom will seem a little thing

The reason people don't take Christianity very seriously anymore is because all people do is put it on their business cards and blab to get on television.

I don't think he has a real concept of reality. To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he's a devout Christian man is completely contradictory.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.