Richard Coles Quotes

I am very much looking forward to being a parish priest.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

You were part of a parish life. It was a great community to grow up in. I just was impressed by our parish priests. After a while, I began to think maybe I could do that.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

I am not a priest, you know.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

I wanted to be a priest when I was a kid.

Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

You see, I was the son of a baptist minister.

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

I grew up very Catholic. I wanted to be a priest.

I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.