That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
ALAN GREENI’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.
More Alan Green Quotes
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I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.
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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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I think what we’re really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
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But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.
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It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.
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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.
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As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn’t in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that’s what kept me in the church.
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You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
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I’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.
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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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