Autobiography Quote by Francis Spufford

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

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

“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

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

— Francis Spufford

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

“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

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

— Francis Spufford

You never came out the way you came in.

— Francis Spufford

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

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

“...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

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

— Francis Spufford