"We were given appetites, not to consume the……" — Robert Farrar Capon
"We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great."
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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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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to…
— Joseph Addison
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In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I…
— Steven Adler
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any…
— Eli Broad
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
— James Buchan
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
— Lord Byron
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My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working…
— Kim Cattrall
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom & passion.
— Steve Winwood
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
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I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times,…
— Steve King
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