All Robert Farrar Capon Quotes
- Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. Aging
- If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to… All
- Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that… Acceptance
- With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of… All
- A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. Good
- Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion. Announcement
- Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of… All
- However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace Afraid
- Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners Entirely
- You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead —and for… All
- A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job. Inspirational
- The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things with which he was… All
- We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows where the sun… Almost Second
- We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. Appetite
- Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed. Cannot Prevail
- Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck. Bargain
- We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved… Inspirational
- Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years… All
- What are you going to do with your freedom? Freedom
- Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness. Day
- That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a… Age
- The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. Becomes
- At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives. Cook
- The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order… All
- Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is… All