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Sense Quotes by Francis Spufford
- We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
- Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic,…
- For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become…
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