“I myself, however, could never resist the temptation to read raisin paste for wine in the story of the Miracle of Cana.… — Robert Farrar Capon Every man Copy Share Image
The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us… — Robert Farrar Capon Church 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 Blame Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of… — Robert Farrar Capon Christianity Copy Share Image
“What saves us is Jesus, and the way we lay hold of that salvation is by faith. And faith is something that,… — Robert Farrar Capon Books Copy Share Image
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to… — Robert Farrar Capon Attention 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 Mean love 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
...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
“Man wills to make of earth, not one Jerusalem but two; this sacramental blood de- clears the double mind by which he… — Robert Farrar Capon Death Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Acceptance 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
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on… — Robert Farrar Capon Ability Copy Share Image
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for… — Robert Farrar Capon Cooks 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
“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
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
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
“It is the Word alone, and not the interference with it, that finally counts. True enough, and fittingly enough, the most obvious… — 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
“Between the onion and the parsley, therefore, I shall give the summation of my case for paying attention. Man's real work is… — Robert Farrar Capon Pine trees 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 Activity Copy Share Image
