11 Francis Spufford Quotes for You to Enjoy

Francis Spufford

English Author

Born: 1964

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

Same Thing Imagination More Self-Awareness Than Same Any Thing

Christians are as subject to complacency as anybody else, and we can certainly settle into repetition and forget that something radical and extraordinary is being asked of us as well - that we hold to an extraordinary promise about how, from moment to moment, something enters the world and enters us, after which everything is different. Francis Spufford

World Radical Complacency Settle Else Extraordinary Everything Promise About Something Well How Subject Repetition Forget Anybody Anybody Else Being Different Hold After Which Us Asked Certainly Moment Christians

I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart. Francis Spufford

Love Hope Faith You Heart Too Much Made Lose Think Too Despair Everyone Ways Those Kind Would Would-Be Some Crossed Fingers Bear Allowances Advance Like Disaster Know Also Faithfully Test Pray Conditional Cannot Which Much

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe. Francis Spufford

You Fool Emotions Feeling Universe Tool Our Way Definitely Physical Proof Indispensable Through Misleading Stuff Also Untrue Domain Susceptible Against Much Certainly Larger Believing

Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture. Francis Spufford

If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income. Francis Spufford

I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either. Francis Spufford

Faith Back Out More Argued Never Passive Than Either Much

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. Francis Spufford

Love Grace Before Christianity Preserving Incredibly Triumphant Ecological New Parts Intact Been Repertoire Different Story Low Different Parts Organism Moments Using Niches Adaptable

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well. Francis Spufford

Me Writing Unfair Struck Well Always Going Sensation Little

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