The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. — Robert Farrar Capon Pathology Copy Share Image
A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. — Robert Farrar Capon Good time Copy Share Image
“Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.” — Robert Farrar Capon Jesus Copy Share Image
However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace — Robert Farrar Capon Grace Copy Share Image
Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory. — Robert Farrar Capon Glory Copy Share Image
“Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you… — Robert Farrar Capon Creatures Copy Share Image
Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his… — Robert Farrar Capon Chins Copy Share Image
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want… — Robert Farrar Capon Cooking Copy Share Image
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it… — Robert Farrar Capon Appetite Copy Share Image
“God’s program is grace, not scorekeeping; free gift, not reward and punishment in this world.” — Robert Farrar Capon Grace Copy Share Image
Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness. — Robert Farrar Capon Easier Copy Share Image
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into… — Robert Farrar Capon Aging Copy Share Image
“unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord… — Robert Farrar Capon American Protestantism 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… — Robert Farrar Capon Christ Copy Share Image
You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is… — Robert Farrar Capon Cup of tea 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
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
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 Crazy 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… — Robert Farrar Capon Every moment Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with… — Robert Farrar Capon Body 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 Achieve 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 Collector 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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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 Orange Rind 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 Come Refreshed 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
“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
“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 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
“Indeed, it is worth noting that most uses of the words "heaven" or "heavenly" in the New Testament bear little relation to… — Robert Farrar Capon Ball game Copy Share Image
