Over the holiday season I enjoyed Roger Scuton's book "Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life".
Less a memoir than a series of essays on particular chunks of his life or matters of importance, Scruton grasps faith perfectly here:
"Faith is not simply an addition to our repetoire of ordinary opinions. It is a transforming state of mind, a stance towards the world, rooted in our social nature and altering all our perceptions, emotions and beliefs."
Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (London: Continuum, 2005), p. 220
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