God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic… — 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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
“The kingdom grows, he says, because the kingdom is already planted. It grows of itself and in its own good time. Above… — Robert Farrar Capon Kingdom Copy Share Image
“While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He has taken the cleanup entirely into his own hands. He has just… — Robert Farrar Capon Christ 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 Church Copy Share Image
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Let a woman learn only a handful of basic finishes for her meat, and she will become a cook instead of a… — Robert Farrar Capon Food 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
...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
“On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into… — Robert Farrar Capon Food Copy Share Image
“He does not come to see if we are good: he comes to disturb the caked conventions by which we pretend to… — Robert Farrar Capon Hot air Copy Share Image
“Trust him. And when you have done that, you are living the life of grace. No matter what happens to you in… — Robert Farrar Capon Cup of tea Copy Share Image
“O Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in,… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more likely to become garbage than orange rind; but for as long as anyone looks at it in delight, it… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“For another thing, people's notions of the really big scriptural Subject can be quite beside the point. Suppose, by way of illustration,… — Robert Farrar Capon Bible 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 Faith Copy Share Image
“O the sad frugality of the middle-income mind. O the humorless neatness of an intellectuality which buys mass-produced candlesticks and carefully puts… — Robert Farrar Capon God Copy Share Image
“For somehow, beneath this gorgeous paradigm of unnecessary being, lies the Act by which it exists. You have just now reduced it… — Robert Farrar Capon Creation Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Chemistry Copy Share Image
He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all… — Robert Farrar Capon Brokenness Copy Share Image
For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session… — Robert Farrar Capon Appetite 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 feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty… — Robert Farrar Capon Books Copy Share Image
“cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“It is not that someday Jesus will do this, that, and the other thing, and then the Kingdom will come. It is… — Robert Farrar Capon Every moment Copy Share Image
“Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the… — Robert Farrar Capon Bible Copy Share Image
...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before… — Robert Farrar Capon Absolution Copy Share Image
That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it… — Robert Farrar Capon Age 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
“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 Gospel Copy Share Image
