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

    Believe   Stuff   Fool  
    Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber
  • Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

    Song   Reading   Tree  
  • God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

  • We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

    Needs   Sides   Goodness  
    Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.141, Faber & Faber
  • Taking the things people do wrong seriously is part of taking them seriously. It’s part of letting their actions have weight. It’s part of letting their actions be actions rather than just indifferent shopping choices; of letting their lives tell a life-story, with consequences, and losses, and gains, rather than just be a flurry of events. It’s part of letting them be real enough to be worth loving, rather than just attractive or glamorous or pretty or charismatic or cool.

    Real   Loss   Shopping  
    Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.34, Faber & Faber
  • When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

    Book   Tired   Teeth  
  • 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 (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.8, Faber & Faber
  • I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

  • You never came out the way you came in.

  • The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

    Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber
  • If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.

    Memories   Book   Reading  
  • What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.

    Book   Inward   Shapes  
  • 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.

    "The trouble with atheists: a defence of faith" by Francis Spufford, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.
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