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What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.

~Francis Spufford

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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Believing Certainly Definitely Emotions Fool Misleading Stuff Untrue You

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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

Topics: After Belief Common Common Sense Contemporary Culture Demands Dispense Fluffy Illusion Might Our Pretending Requires Sense Systematic Thoroughly Well While You

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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

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

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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 or should ever admit. We believers mean something different by the word: something that puts faith permanently in the category of irreproducible results.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Admit Believers Best Category Christianity Craig Despite Different Efforts Ever Evidence Faith Kind Lane Like Mean Permanently Puts Results Science Should Something Truth Truth Is Will William Word

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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

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For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.

~Francis Spufford

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

~Francis Spufford

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I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

~Francis Spufford

Topics: Appetite Child Desperation Edge Frantic Know Off Page Read Sucked Want Why Words

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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 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

Topics: Based Between Condition Disposable Excellent Figure Good-Looking Human Human Species Humanity Income Knowledge Large Normal Person Single Single Person Species Think You Your

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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