Quotes by : Francis Spufford

What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle....

Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial....

He cannot do anything deliberate now. The strain of his whole weight on his outstretched arms hurts too....

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

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out....

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading,....

Take the famous slogan on the atheist bus in London … “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying....

I don't know if there's a God. (And neither do you, and neither does Professor Dawkins, and neither does....

The part of thinking that’s easy to handle is the part that works by analogy with speech. Thinking....