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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
#Emotions
#Feeling
#Fool
#Universe
#Way
I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary.
- Francis Spufford
#Best
#Feelings
#I Am
#Mean
#Mistake
Christianity is a religion of continuity and discontinuity as well. It's about what stays the same and what changes in the twinkling of an eye. Both are necessary truths, but sometimes it's important to accentuate the discontinuity, the sudden leap, the way you go up a tree, Zacchaeus, and come down a saint.
- Francis Spufford
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#Leap
#Religion
#Tree
#Way
What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.
- Francis Spufford
#Back
#Push
#Religion
#Talking
#Worth
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
#Faith
#Heart
#Hope
#Lose
#Love
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
#Grace
#Love
#Low
#New
#Story
I was never argued out of faith; it was much more passive than that - and I wasn't argued back in, either.
- Francis Spufford
#Back
#Either
#Faith
#More
#Never
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
#Belief
#Emotions
#Experience
#Human
#Way
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
#Human
#Humanity
#Knowledge
#Person
#Your
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
#Edge
#Know
#Page
#Why
#Words
Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
- Francis Spufford
#Believing
#Emotions
#Fool
#Misleading
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
#Complacency
#Moment
#Repetition
#World
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
#Belief
#Common Sense
#Culture
#Illusion
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
#Bicycle
#God
#Rust
#Tires
#Us
In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. And same-sex marriage will be one of the fine old God-given traditions that conservatives leap to defend.
- Francis Spufford
#Leap
#Marriage
#Old
#Unpredictable
#Will
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