All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

Over the years I've tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I've tried to pursue them, and, I've had a certain sense of 'stickability,' hanging in there, and I suppose that's me.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.