Religion Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

17 Religion quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

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Robert Farrar Capon’s 17 excerpts combine sharp humor with serious theological musings, creating a lively dialogue about faith’s quirks and mysteries. Expect a blend of irony and earnestness that keeps the mind alert.

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

Robert Farrar Capon

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

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“While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He has taken the cleanup entirely into his own hands. He has just…

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With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to…

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Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable;…

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The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with…

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The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy…

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The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us…

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Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of…

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Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good…

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Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the…

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“It is not that someday Jesus will do this, that, and the other thing, and then the Kingdom will come. It is…

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...we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead - from the absolution of our death. We come before…

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Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After…

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“Often when people try to say what the Bible is about, they let their own mindset ride roughshod over what actually lies…

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“For another thing, people's notions of the really big scriptural Subject can be quite beside the point. Suppose, by way of illustration,…

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“The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism,…

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“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…

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

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Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It…

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“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to food other…

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

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Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same…

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

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

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“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by…

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The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your…

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“We were never told that it would not hurt, only that nothing would ever finally go wrong; not that it would not often go…

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The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in…

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It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit…

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