God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook them? Richard Coles Read Quote
In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad. Richard Coles Read Quote
The dog collar is fascinating to people, when it doesn’t repel. I’ve got used to being shouted at in the street. Richard Coles Read Quote
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. Richard Coles Read Quote
One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size. Richard Coles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Richard Coles Read Quote
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 Read Quote
