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Top 20 Francis Spufford Quotes (2025 Update)

Francis Spufford Quote: “Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.”

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

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Francis Spufford Quote: “God doesn’t want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.”

2. “God doesn’t want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “Life is a mess of accident, I find.”

3. “Life is a mess of accident, I find.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “Some people ask nowadays what kind of a religion it is that chooses an instrument of torture for its symbol, as if the cross on churches must represent some kind of endorsement. The answer is: one that takes the existence of suffering seriously.”

4. “Some people ask nowadays what kind of a religion it is that chooses an instrument of torture for its symbol, as if the cross on churches must represent some kind of endorsement. The answer is: one that takes the existence of suffering seriously.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “You never came out the way you came in.”

5. “You never came out the way you came in.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “We’re the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.”

7. “We’re the league of the guilty, after all, not the league of the shortly-to-become-good. We are a work in progress. We will always be a work in progress. We will always fail, and it will always matter.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.”

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

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Francis Spufford Quote: “So when the atheist bus comes by, and tells you that there’s probably no God so you should stop worrying and enjoy your life, the slogan is not just bitterly inappropriate in mood. What it means, if it’s true, is that anyone who isn’t enjoying themselves is entirely on their own.”

9. “So when the atheist bus comes by, and tells you that there’s probably no God so you should stop worrying and enjoy your life, the slogan is not just bitterly inappropriate in mood. What it means, if it’s true, is that anyone who isn’t enjoying themselves is entirely on their own.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “By now the night tastes of nothing but ash. But nicotine substitutes for food, nicotine substitutes for sleep, and there is so little time left for the future, once all the demands of the present are taken care of.”

11. “By now the night tastes of nothing but ash. But nicotine substitutes for food, nicotine substitutes for sleep, and there is so little time left for the future, once all the demands of the present are taken care of.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “No, no, not in the law, it ain’t. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might as well be sense as serves the living, for it won’t serve the dead, nohow.”

13. “No, no, not in the law, it ain’t. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might as well be sense as serves the living, for it won’t serve the dead, nohow.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “A task begun is easier than a task contemplated;.”

15. “A task begun is easier than a task contemplated;.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.”

16. “Churches are vessels of hush, as well as everything else they are, and when I block out the distractions of vision, the silence is almost shockingly loud.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “If Christianity is anything, it’s a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We’re not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we’re doing.”

18. “If Christianity is anything, it’s a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We’re not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we’re doing.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “He laid his white right hand tidily atop his white left hand, on the tabletop. Smith smiled appreciatively, but still declined to come out to play. Septimus tapped the toe of his shoe on the floor. Tap-tap-tap: a foot tutting.”

19. “He laid his white right hand tidily atop his white left hand, on the tabletop. Smith smiled appreciatively, but still declined to come out to play. Septimus tapped the toe of his shoe on the floor. Tap-tap-tap: a foot tutting.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “No, no, not in the law, it ain’t. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might.”

20. “No, no, not in the law, it ain’t. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “Who the hell ever said that plenty was supposed to abolish unhappiness? But what it will do is free our hands to concentrate on unhappiness.”

21. “Who the hell ever said that plenty was supposed to abolish unhappiness? But what it will do is free our hands to concentrate on unhappiness.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “For a Christian, the most essential thing God does in time, in all of human history, is to be that man in the crowd; a man under arrest, and on his way to our common catastrophe.”

22. “For a Christian, the most essential thing God does in time, in all of human history, is to be that man in the crowd; a man under arrest, and on his way to our common catastrophe.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “Coca-Cola bottles exactly fitted the average person’s hand. Bandages came as a packet of pink patches with a glue just strong enough for the human skin already applied to each one. America was a torrent of clever anticipations.”

23. “Coca-Cola bottles exactly fitted the average person’s hand. Bandages came as a packet of pink patches with a glue just strong enough for the human skin already applied to each one. America was a torrent of clever anticipations.”

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Francis Spufford Quote: “The word ‘more’ on the bottom corner of a poster, which he knew at once would read in full ‘Life has become better, more cheerful!’ Those posters were all over the place. The slogan advertised Soviet Champagne. Or the existence of Soviet Champagne advertised the slogan, he wasn’t sure which.”

24. “The word ‘more’ on the bottom corner of a poster, which he knew at once would read in full ‘Life has become better, more cheerful!’ Those posters were all over the place. The slogan advertised Soviet Champagne. Or the existence of Soviet Champagne advertised the slogan, he wasn’t sure which.”

— Francis Spufford

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