The surprising answer is that as a child I went to quite a religious Church of England school and we had proper scripture lessons. As I’ve got older, I appreciate that there’s a richness there that can inform your life enormously. Treating people as you’d be treated, trying to love your neighbours if not like them — those things are quite powerful if you let them be.

Jack Dee, The Observer, 31 October

When Jesus was asked the question “what is the greatest commandment?” he didn’t say: “Be Yourself.” He said: “Love God and love your neighbour.” The Christian wisdom is that paradoxically we find our true self when we lose it, by being turned, not inwards in self-obsession, but outwards in love for the God who made us and our neighbours who need us.

Graham Tomlin, The Times, 30 October

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