"We are supposed to be on the side……" — Francis Spufford
"We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it."
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20 Quotes by Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the…
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More Goodness Quotes
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one of 1,767 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation…
— Teresa of Avila
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,…
— Teresa of Avila
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without…
— Francis Bacon
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
— Abu Bakr
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed…
— Henry Adams
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of…
— Annie Besant
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A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom…
— Lionel Blue
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
— Daniel Boone
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