--- title: "Best Francis Spufford Quotes" description: "Francis Spufford is an English author and writing teacher. His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b051/author-francis-spufford-12650.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b051/author-francis-spufford-12650.jpg) # Francis Spufford (1964) Journalist **54** quotes in **484** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Francis Spufford is a journalist, best known for *Golden Hill*. ## Quick Facts About Francis Spufford Born January 1, 1964 Profession Journalist Notable works Golden Hill ## About Francis Spufford Francis Spufford is an English author and writing teacher. His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for First Novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Ondaatje Prize. In 2007 Spufford was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ## Awards & Honors Somerset Maugham Award Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ## Quotes by Francis Spufford · Page 2 > [I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-want-to-know-why-i-read-as-a-child-with-such-a-frantic-appetite-why/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Appetite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/appetite/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/francis-spufford-12650_appetite_i-want-to-know-why-i-read-as-a-child-wit_971065.jpg) > [There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/there-have-been-low-moments-before-but-christianity-is-an-incredibly/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Adaptable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adaptable/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/francis-spufford-12650_adaptable_there-have-been-low-moments-before-but-c_72141.jpg) > [In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. And same-sex marriage will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/in-a-hundred-years-christianity-will-have-mutated-into-something/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/233/francis-spufford-12650_christianity_in-a-hundred-years-christianity-will-hav_1381134.jpg) > [Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/libraries-are-public-treasuries-they-re-ways-in-which-well-meaning/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/200/francis-spufford-12650_anyone_libraries-are-public-treasuries-they-re_3151066.png) > [“Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/churches-are-vessels-of-hush-as-well-as-everything-else-they-are-and/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Dreams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dreams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69d/francis-spufford-12650_dreams_churches-are-vessels-of-hush-as-well-as_3221921.png) > [“He too had plans... he wasn't embarrassed by the idea of carefully thinking through what would be necessary to achieve them. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/he-too-had-plans-he-wasn-t-embarrassed-by-the-idea-of-carefully/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/164/francis-spufford-12650_life_he-too-had-plans-he-wasn-t-embarrassed-b_2235545.png) > [I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-am-a-fairly-orthodox-christian-every-sunday-i-say-and-do-my-best-to/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/francis-spufford-12650_am_i-am-a-fairly-orthodox-christian-every-s_1408657.jpg) > [Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/belief-demands-that-you-dispense-with-illusion-after-illusion-while/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Belief](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/belief/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52d/francis-spufford-12650_belief_belief-demands-that-you-dispense-with-il_2588207.png) > [The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/the-emotions-that-sustain-religious-belief-are-all-in-fact-deeply/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Adults](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/francis-spufford-12650_adults_the-emotions-that-sustain-religious-beli_1057646.png) > [Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/emotions-can-certainly-be-misleading-they-can-fool-you-into-believing-2/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d55/francis-spufford-12650_against_emotions-can-certainly-be-misleading-the_1788351.png) > [Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/christians-are-as-subject-to-complacency-as-anybody-else-and-we-can/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/francis-spufford-12650_about_christians-are-as-subject-to-complacency_1362117.png) > [You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/you-don-t-have-to-become-an-investment-banker-as-a-way-of/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Banker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/banker/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/francis-spufford-12650_banker_you-don-t-have-to-become-an-investment-b_885601.png) > [Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-like-william-lane-craig-the/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/375/francis-spufford-12650_admit_despite-the-best-efforts-of-apologists-l_138578.png) > [“We're the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/we-re-the-league-of-the-guilty-after-all-not-the-league-of-the/) [Francis Spufford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/francis-spufford-12650_league_we-re-the-league-of-the-guilty-after-all_3036193.png) ## Francis Spufford by topic [Religion (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/francis-spufford/) [Christianity (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/francis-spufford/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-spufford/#itemlist", "name": "Francis Spufford Quotes", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Francis Spufford" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/i-want-to-know-why-i-read-as-a-child-with-such-a-frantic-appetite-why/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/francis-spufford-12650_appetite_i-want-to-know-why-i-read-as-a-child-wit_971065.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/francis-spufford-12650_appetite_i-want-to-know-why-i-read-as-a-child-wit_971065.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/francis-spufford-12650_appetite_i-want-to-know-why-i-read-as-a-child-wit_971065.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with…” — Francis Spufford", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Francis Spufford" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-spufford/there-have-been-low-moments-before-but-christianity-is-an-incredibly/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/francis-spufford-12650_adaptable_there-have-been-low-moments-before-but-c_72141.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/francis-spufford-12650_adaptable_there-have-been-low-moments-before-but-c_72141.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/francis-spufford-12650_adaptable_there-have-been-low-moments-before-but-c_72141.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different…” — Francis Spufford", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. 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