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.
ALAN GREENI want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.
More Alan Green Quotes
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They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative
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The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.
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I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.
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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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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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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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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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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
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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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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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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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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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