“Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that”

The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

As a parish priest of the Church Of England.

Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.

And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.

That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.

John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.

They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

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.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it.

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street; if you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I’ll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.