“He does not come to see if we are good: he comes to disturb the caked conventions by which we pretend to be good. He does not come to see if we are sorry: he knows our repentance isn't worth… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.” — 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 examples. It… — 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 all the… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
