There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does anybody. It isn't… — 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… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and… — 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… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“Whatever the "Christian conservatives" in America say, there is no one set of rightful opinions that follow on automatically from your belief.… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“...for a piece of famous fluffiness that doesn't just pretend about what real lives can be like, but moves on into one… — 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
