Richard Coles Quotes

Richard Coles

Richard Coles

English Musician

Born: Mar 26, 1962

About Christmas People Think You I Am

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. Richard Coles

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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. Richard Coles

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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. Richard Coles

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I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification. Richard Coles

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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. Richard Coles

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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. Richard Coles

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. Richard Coles

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In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad. Richard Coles

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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. Richard Coles

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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

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I can't turn the clock back but I can seek the forgiveness of those I've wronged. Richard Coles

Forgiveness Back Those I Can Seek Wronged Clock Turn

A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year. Richard Coles

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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

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