Bread Quote by Robert Farrar Capon

“The Gospel of grace must not be turned into a bait-and-switch offer. It is not one of those airline supersavers in which you read…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“Because the creative Word is the eternal contemporary of every moment of the world's existence, the kingdom is catholic in time as well as…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“Both the ferial and the festal cuisine, therefore, must be seen as styles of unabashed eating. Neither attempts to do anything to food other…

— Robert Farrar Capon

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

— Robert Farrar Capon

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

— Robert Farrar Capon

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

— Robert Farrar Capon

“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by…

— Robert Farrar Capon

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your…

— Robert Farrar Capon

“We were never told that it would not hurt, only that nothing would ever finally go wrong; not that it would not often go…

— Robert Farrar Capon