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Faith & Spirit Quote by Cliff Richard

"I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is"

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There is something quietly radical, in a celebrity culture built on novelty and late nights, about insisting on a “regular daily intake” of Scripture. Cliff Richard frames faith less as a mood and more as a discipline, borrowing the language of diet and routine. “Intake” makes the Bible sound like nourishment rather than decoration: not a prop for public piety, but a private practice meant to steady the system.

The subtext is about logistics and loyalty. “Regardless of how late it is” hints at the real conditions of a working musician’s life: gigs that end after midnight, travel that erases time zones, the perpetual adrenaline of performance. He’s not presenting holiness as effortless; he’s admitting friction. The point isn’t that he always feels inspired, but that he shows up anyway. That admission humanizes a figure often treated as either squeaky-clean or passé: faith here becomes less brand identity than habit under pressure.

Context matters because Richard’s career sits at the intersection of pop fame and public Christian commitment in Britain, where open religiosity can read as uncool or suspect. This line dodges sermonizing by speaking in the smallest unit of credibility: the daily choice. It also gently reframes devotion as consistency, not intensity. No grand testimony, no mystical flare - just the mundane persistence that, for believers, is where belief either survives the spotlight or evaporates in it.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Richard, Cliff. (2026, January 17). I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-tried-to-have-a-regular-daily-intake-from-46714/

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Richard, Cliff. "I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-tried-to-have-a-regular-daily-intake-from-46714/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-tried-to-have-a-regular-daily-intake-from-46714/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Cliff Richard (born October 14, 1940) is a Musician from England.

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