Alan Green Quotes

#1. 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. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.

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

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#3. I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

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#4. As a parish priest of the Church Of England I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

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#5. The bible is not a blueprint for every day of your life, it is an inspiration not a blueprint. That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

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#9. You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

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

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#11. The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

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

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

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#14. I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

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#15. I've never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.

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#16. Bruce, on his right foot, is still running ...

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#17. A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

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#18. 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

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#19. Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

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#20. I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

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#21. Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

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

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

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#24. John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

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#25. I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

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#26. John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

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