What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare. — Robert Farrar Capon Adversity Copy Share Image
The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls. — Robert Farrar Capon Custody Copy Share Image
One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world — Robert Farrar Capon Closer 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
“God in Jesus didn’t prevent sinners from sinning, he went around forgiving them right and left.” — Robert Farrar Capon Forgiving Copy Share Image
“prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)” — Robert Farrar Capon Food Copy Share Image
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church. — Robert Farrar Capon Basements Copy Share Image
“It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.” — Robert Farrar Capon History Copy Share Image
If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter. — Robert Farrar Capon Chance Copy Share Image
Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. — Robert Farrar Capon Certainty Copy Share Image
“a world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows… — Robert Farrar Capon Sparrows Copy Share Image
Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service?… — Robert Farrar Capon Bottles Copy Share Image
“... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God.… — Robert Farrar Capon And love Copy Share Image
“IMITATION CITRUS FLAVORED DIETARY ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED CARBONATED BEVERAGE. That, I submit, is not a label; it is an incantation. Someday, it should… — Robert Farrar Capon Carbonated Beverage 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… — Robert Farrar Capon Bread Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks… — Robert Farrar Capon Easy 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… — Robert Farrar Capon Abstinence Copy Share Image
“Jesus obviously does not answer many questions from you or me. Which is why apologetics is always such a questionable enterprise. Jesus… — Robert Farrar Capon Apologetics 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
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
...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
That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it… — Robert Farrar Capon Age 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
“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the… — Robert Farrar Capon Activity Copy Share Image
“Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have at the… — Robert Farrar Capon Bible 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… — Robert Farrar Capon Church Copy Share Image
“On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into… — Robert Farrar Capon Food Copy Share Image
“Economy is not one of the necessary principles of the universe; it is one of the jokes which God indulges in precisely… — Robert Farrar Capon Economics Copy Share Image
“Parables are told only because they are true, not because the actions of the characters in them can be recommended for imitation.… — Robert Farrar Capon Parables Copy Share Image
“There, then, is the role of the amateur: to look the world back to grace. There, too, is the necessity of his… — Robert Farrar Capon Amateur Copy Share Image
“Christian theology, however, never is and never can be anything more than the thoughts that Christians have (alone or with others) after… — Robert Farrar Capon Adventure Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, my new version of what the Bible is about reads as follows: it is about the mystery by which the power… — Robert Farrar Capon Bible 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
“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 God image Copy Share Image
“Rather, the kingdom already exists in the King himself, and when he ascends, the whole world goes with him (John 12:32). It… — Robert Farrar Capon Every moment Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion. — Robert Farrar Capon Announcements Copy Share Image
Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste… — Robert Farrar Capon Ears Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Bible Copy Share Image
