"God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants……" — Francis Spufford

"God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity."

20 Quotes by Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we…
Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have…
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that…
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity…
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever…
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the…
I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence,…
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to…
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind…
You never came out the way you came in.
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the…

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If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike… — Rowan Atkinson
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.… — Chinua Achebe
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any… — Michele Bachmann
Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. — James A. Baldwin
When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that… — Stephen Baldwin
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is… — Scott Adams
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess… — Bob Beauprez

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