"The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and……" — Robert Farrar Capon
"The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home."
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Robert Farrar Capon
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46 Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon
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Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at…
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If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be,…
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Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we…
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With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call…
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A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.
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Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.
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Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or…
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However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace
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Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners
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You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can…
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A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job.
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The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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