I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
ALAN GREENThe Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
More Alan Green Quotes
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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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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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That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism.
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Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.
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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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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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As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.
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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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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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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.
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I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s.
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.
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