"There have been low moments before, but Christianity……" — 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 niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant."
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20 Quotes by Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford has 20 quotes on this site.
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We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we…
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God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
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Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have…
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
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Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that…
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If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity…
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever…
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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the…
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I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence,…
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When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to…
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Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind…
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You never came out the way you came in.
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More Adaptable Quotes
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which…
— David Cameron
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I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union…
— David Cameron
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like…
— Yvon Chouinard
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I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.
— Winston Churchill
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative…
— Sven Birkerts
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We can never be certain about the future and therefore we must continue to be flexible and adaptable so that…
— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
— Edna Ferber
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I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in…
— Unknown Author
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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to…
— Saul Alinsky
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We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
— Daniel Wolpert
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