“I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.”

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

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.

I’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.

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.

Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn’t playing

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people.

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

The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.

The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint.

As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.

I’d signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England.

Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions.

But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.

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

False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God – Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia.

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.

The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”

The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals.