Quotes by Richard Coles - Page 1

You find you have a lot of friends when you are rich and idle.
Richard Coles /
Idle
Rich
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I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.
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Faith
Justification
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I can't turn the clock back but I can seek the forgiveness of those I've wronged.
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Forgiveness
Clock
Wronged
Seek
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I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually.
Richard Coles /
Political Party
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In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad.
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Corporate
Noticed
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I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011.
Richard Coles /
Mary
Licensed
Vicar
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My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy.
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Substitutes
Tiny
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I spend much of my time in a broadly liberal secular world but I don't belong to it, I belong somewhere else.
Richard Coles /
Secular
Somewhere Else
Belong
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The dog collar is fascinating to people, when it doesn't repel. I've got used to being shouted at in the street.
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Fascinating
Collar
Repel
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Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices.
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Christianity
Tough Life
Disciplined
Involves
Priest
Properly
Rigorous
Sacrifices
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But it's true I hadn't realised quite how much the discipleship of Jesus Christ would involve keeping up with email.
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Jesus Christ
Realised
Involve
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I got lucky with my parents. They were unfailingly loving and supportive, which gave me confidence about my place in the world.
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Supportive
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The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.
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Forgetting
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I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.
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Atmosphere
Curiosity
Ethos
Genuine
Adored
Churches
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God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook them?
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Insignificant
Missing
Arrive
Chooses
Overlook
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Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for many years.
Richard Coles /
Catering
Nothing New
Conduct
Vicar
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I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.
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Behave
Ignite
Praying
Punk
Upset
Fires
Frequently
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In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is 'MasterChef', which I have watched since Loyd Grossman's day, back in the 1990s.
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Cookery
Opinion
Series
Watched
In My Opinion
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I wanted to put together a Christmas album that went back to the stable in Bethlehem and the source of it all. It kind of gets lost sometimes.
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Bethlehem
Stable
Christmas Album
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Like most people, I cook about a dozen dishes, over and over again, and to stretch the menu has meant stretching my competence to breaking point.
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Competence
Dishes
Dozen
Breaking
Menu
Stretch
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A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year.
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Commercialism
Sentimentality
Check
Cluster
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I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.
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Conventional
Territory
Unusual
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I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.
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Augustine
Compare
Precedent
Hesitate
Paul
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Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe.
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Thank You
Decent
Pension
Provision
Retirement
Music I Am Me
Rare
Music Me I Am
Clergyman
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I still feel a spike of anticipation when 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel' strikes up and, in these andropausal years, I am unexpectedly moved by 'Away in a Manger'.
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Anticipation
Strikes
Spike
Unexpectedly
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I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all, singing comic songs on his baby grand.
Richard Coles /
Entertaining
Aged
Copy
Grand
Showing
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I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time.
Richard Coles /
Looking Forward
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Jesus comes among us, in our all division, not to instruct, comfort or inspire but to die. In doing so, He answers the sum of our self-regard, stupidity and cruelty.
Richard Coles /
Cruelty
Division
Inspire
Stupidity
Sum
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The thought of having sclerosis of the synapses is alarming. I wonder if in later life I will pay the price for having overstimulated my mental apparatus in my twenties.
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Twenties
Alarming
Apparatus
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My means of entry to 'Christianity was singing in a choir. As a boy chorister, I grew up with Ancient and Modern, the evening canticles, versicles and responses, and carols.
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Ancient
Choir
Christianity
Entry
Evening
Responses
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Generally on a Saturday I come home wreathed in media glamour having interviewed a former Krankie or someone, and suddenly I am back in the world of orange blossom and bells.
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Bells
Former
Orange
Saturday
Home World I Am
Blossom
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I was the middle child of three boys and grew up in the village of Barton Seagrave near Kettering, Northamptonshire. My father, Nigel, followed his father, Keith, into shoe manufacturing.
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Manufacturing
Village
Followed
Near
Shoe
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Grandpa Keith made shoes for Adam Faith and George Best. I was dazzled by such people. As a teenager, I was haunted by the idea of people living glamorously beyond my provincial horizons.
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Adam
Grandpa
Haunted
Horizons
Provincial
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In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable, I am out there on my own as a sort of busy, recognised religious person.
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Parish
Religious Person
Accountable
Recognised
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This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was angry and thought it was OK because his anger was righteous.
Richard Coles /
Anger
Assumption
Capitalist
Frustrating
Righteous
Virtue
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I think that Christians should have confidence, we have always been part of the mainstream conversation, and if we don't join in often what you hear gets hectoring and mad, just people on the margins.
Richard Coles /
Margins
Always Confidence People
Christians
Join
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I am loathe to say I have a strategy in the broadcasting work I do, but I do think it is possible to be a priest who has something to contribute to mainstream media as long as you aren't completely mad.
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Broadcasting
Loathe
Mainstream Media
Strategy
Work I Am Long
Contribute
Priest
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I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.
Richard Coles /
Priesthood
Day Will Doing
Day Job
Element
Frankly
Involves
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I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the audience would hoot with laughter. The only time they didn't laugh was when I was doing comedy.
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Arms
Hoot
Laughter
Lear
Only Time
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I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister.
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Easter
Clergy
Nominal
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The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector Matthew, a lackey of the occupying Romans, and Simon the Zealot, an insurrectionist.
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Easter
Matthew
Christians
Commitments
Encompassing
Formed
Occupying
Romans
Simon
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I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing trays of pancakes to the vicarage floor in a controversy over whether to roll or to fold. But the real arena for food combat is television.
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Arena
Combat
Controversy
Pancakes
Parish
Floor
Fold
Ideal
Ladies
Mince
Row
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I completely understand why people would find the Church intolerable. I'm not the least bit surprised when people seek to leave it, though I miss them and I wish they'd stay. But I sometimes think you leave to come back, and that's certainly true in my case.
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Church
People Sometimes True
Miss
Case
Certainly
Intolerable
Seek
Surprised
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What I wear identifies me as a priest. I don't agree with all this trying to appear 'normal'. If you want that to be normal, don't take off your dog collar and then put it on again, because what you're doing is playing along with the view that wearing one makes you odd.
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Odd
Appear
Collar
Priest
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I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty of those - but the monarchy is really the Queen, who is of unimpeachable integrity and the longest serving head of state in the world, and who never puts a foot wrong.
Richard Coles /
Favour
Members
Monarchy
Plenty
Serving
Wrong
Fail
Foot
Grant
Head
Hierarchies
Longest
Privileges
Puts
Uphold
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