“Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.” — Robert Farrar Capon Jesus Copy Share Image
What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare. — Robert Farrar Capon Adversity Copy Share Image
However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace — Robert Farrar Capon Grace 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
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 Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion. — Robert Farrar Capon 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
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 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 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
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
“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 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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“God’s program is grace, not scorekeeping; free gift, not reward and punishment in this world.” — Robert Farrar Capon Grace 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
