Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job.

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

What are you going to do with your freedom?

Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S, ' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.

Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.

Jesus obviously does not answer many questions from you or me. Which is why apologetics is always such a questionable enterprise. Jesus just doesn’t argue.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty I want to see your enthusiasm.