"But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people"
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The wording does a lot of work. “Attitude” is ordinary, almost casual; it drags the cosmic down to the daily. No talk of miracles, heaven, or sin. Just posture. That rhetorical choice fits Richard’s public role as a pop musician who had to translate conviction into mainstream language without sounding like a preacher. It also sidesteps the culture-war version of Christianity and aims at something harder to argue with: anyone can test whether a belief makes them less bitter, less self-absorbed, more patient.
There’s subtext in the two directions of change: “towards yourself” comes first, hinting that self-contempt and self-inflation are twin problems, and that faith offers a steadier self-image. Then “towards other people,” the social proof. If the change is real, it leaks outward.
Context matters: Richard’s career unfolded in a Britain increasingly suspicious of public piety. Framing Jesus as an attitude shift lets him present religion not as tribal identity, but as personal renovation - a softer claim, and a sharper one, because it stakes everything on observable transformation.
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"But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-jesus-changes-your-attitude-towards-yourself-54201/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.










