Best 22 quotes of Alan Green on MyQuotes

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

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.

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.

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

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

I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.

I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.

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

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

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

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

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.

John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

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

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