Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“God’s program is grace, not scorekeeping; free gift, not reward and punishment in this world.” — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament) never comes until… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“...as long as her grace remains grace, she remains the only life he has - even while he is whoring around in… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism,… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“The Gospel of grace must not be turned into a bait-and-switch offer. It is not one of those airline supersavers in which… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“The Gospel of grace must not be turned into a bait-and-switch offer. It is not one of those airline supersavers in which you read… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“Because the creative Word is the eternal contemporary of every moment of the world's existence, the kingdom is catholic in time as well as… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to food other… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
“We were never told that it would not hurt, only that nothing would ever finally go wrong; not that it would not often go… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share
