...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really… — 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 out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live… — 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
