I can't turn the clock back but I can seek the forgiveness of those I've wronged. — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification. — Richard Coles Faith Copy Share Image
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 Animal Copy Share Image
I was licensed and installed as 59th Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon, in Northamptonshire, in 2011. — Richard Coles Catholic Copy Share Image
I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually. — Richard Coles Centrist Copy Share Image
Generally on a Saturday I come home wreathed in media glamour having interviewed a former Krankie or someone, and suddenly I am… — Richard Coles Blossom Copy Share Image
Like most people, I cook about a dozen dishes, over and over again, and to stretch the menu has meant stretching my… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
I wanted to put together a Christmas album that went back to the stable in Bethlehem and the source of it all.… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong. — Richard Coles Curiosity Copy Share Image
I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my… — Richard Coles Day Copy Share Image
Trying to do Christianity properly is tough. Life as a priest is rigorous and disciplined. It involves sacrifices. — Richard Coles Christianity Copy Share Image
I think that Christians should have confidence, we have always been part of the mainstream conversation, and if we don't join in… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my… — Richard Coles Europe Copy Share Image
I completely understand why people would find the Church intolerable. I'm not the least bit surprised when people seek to leave it,… — Richard Coles Church Copy Share Image
The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector… — Richard Coles Christianity Copy Share Image
What I wear identifies me as a priest. I don't agree with all this trying to appear 'normal'. If you want that… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty… — Richard Coles Head of state Copy Share Image
I remember in one parish a terrible row over the ideal size of mince pies, and in another two great ladies dashing… — Richard Coles Food Copy Share Image
My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy. — Richard Coles Animal Copy Share Image
In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad. — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of… — Richard Coles Christmas Copy Share Image
In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable,… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
I was the middle child of three boys and grew up in the village of Barton Seagrave near Kettering, Northamptonshire. My father,… — Richard Coles Children Copy Share Image
Jesus comes among us, in our all division, not to instruct, comfort or inspire but to die. In doing so, He answers… — Richard Coles Comfort Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the best of the knockout cookery series is 'MasterChef', which I have watched since Loyd Grossman's day, back in… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook… — Richard Coles God Copy Share Image
Grandpa Keith made shoes for Adam Faith and George Best. I was dazzled by such people. As a teenager, I was haunted… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional… — Richard Coles Maverick Copy Share Image
But it's true I hadn't realised quite how much the discipleship of Jesus Christ would involve keeping up with email. — Richard Coles Discipleship Copy Share Image
Food as sport is nothing new. To a vicar, especially, church catering has represented the conduct of war by other means for… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
I am loathe to say I have a strategy in the broadcasting work I do, but I do think it is possible… — Richard Coles Broadcasting Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of… — Richard Coles City Copy Share Image
The thought of having sclerosis of the synapses is alarming. I wonder if in later life I will pay the price for… — Richard Coles Doctor Copy Share Image
I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but… — Richard Coles Christian Copy Share Image
The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and… — Richard Coles Christmas Copy Share Image
I just looked preposterous. It would be 'King Lear' and I'd walk on with Cordelia's dead body in my arms and the… — Richard Coles Body Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all,… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
