The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“Beyond the breakwater you can no longer touch bottom, but you are not afraid, for in this sea the harder you swim the stronger… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“You do not chuse where You bestow your Heart. Your Heart bestows Itself, will-you-nill-you, in the Midst of other Business. —” — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“...what goes on inside believers is mysterious. So far as it can be guessed at - if for some reason you wanted to guess… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
