I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er,… — 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
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
