“Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.” — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable;… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Jesus obviously does not answer many questions from you or me. Which is why apologetics is always such a questionable enterprise. Jesus… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good… — 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
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that… — 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 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
