“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 Hunger Copy Share Image
Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable;… — Robert Farrar Capon Christ Copy Share Image
The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Bread 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
“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
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows… — Robert Farrar Capon Assured Copy Share Image
A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that… — Robert Farrar Capon Admission Copy Share Image
“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
“Nobody, in other words - not the devil, not the world, not the flesh, not even ourselves - can take us away… — Robert Farrar Capon Hell Copy Share Image
Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its… — Robert Farrar Capon Bash Copy Share Image
“judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament) never comes until… — Robert Farrar Capon Grace Copy Share Image
“The world may or may not need another cookbook, but it needs all the lovers – amateurs – it can get. It… — Robert Farrar Capon Love Copy Share Image
“Christians have often been lamentably slow to grasp the profound secularity of the kingdom as it is proclaimed in the Gospels. Because… — Robert Farrar Capon Christianity Copy Share Image
“Often when people try to say what the Bible is about, they let their own mindset ride roughshod over what actually lies… — Robert Farrar Capon Bible 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
“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to… — Robert Farrar Capon Eating 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 Fruitfulness Copy Share Image
“We live in an age in which saving is subterfuge for spending. No doubt you sincerely believe that there is margarine in… — Robert Farrar Capon Food 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
“Always remember, you don’t need bad people to get bad deeds done. All you need is somebody clever enough to convince good… — Robert Farrar Capon Bad people Copy Share Image
The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine… — Robert Farrar Capon Creation Copy Share Image
“While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He has taken the cleanup entirely into his own hands. He has just… — Robert Farrar Capon Christ Copy Share Image
It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need… — Robert Farrar Capon Cheese Copy Share Image
The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy… — Robert Farrar Capon Cooking 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
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
The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and… — Robert Farrar Capon Adultery 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… — Robert Farrar Capon Best effort Copy Share Image
“Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate… — Robert Farrar Capon Food Copy Share Image
“...as long as her grace remains grace, she remains the only life he has - even while he is whoring around in… — Robert Farrar Capon First time 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
