“Because the creative Word is the eternal contemporary of every moment of the world's existence, the kingdom is catholic in time as… — Robert Farrar Capon Every moment 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session… — Robert Farrar Capon Appetite Copy Share Image
“cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries.… — Robert Farrar Capon 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
The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all… — Robert Farrar Capon Brokenness Copy Share Image
Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight… — Robert Farrar Capon Chemistry Copy Share Image
“He does not come to see if we are good: he comes to disturb the caked conventions by which we pretend to… — Robert Farrar Capon Hot air Copy Share Image
“Indeed, it is worth noting that most uses of the words "heaven" or "heavenly" in the New Testament bear little relation to… — Robert Farrar Capon 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 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
“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
“The Gospel of grace must not be turned into a bait-and-switch offer. It is not one of those airline supersavers in which… — Robert Farrar Capon Gospel 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 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
“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 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
...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
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
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 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 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 Copy Share Image
