Robert Farrar Capon Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Farrar Capon
Robert Farrar Capon Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert Farrar Capon on Wise Famous Quotes.
In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.
It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.
Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.
Grace cannot prevail ... until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
Grace doesn't sell; you can hardly even give it away, because it works only for losers and no one wants to stand in their line.
Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.
Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.
It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.
The only result of a truly dedicated campaign to get rid of evil will be the abolition of literally everybody.
We are saved gratis, by grace. We do nothing and we deserve nothing; it is all, absolutely and without qualification, one huge, hilarious gift.
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.
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The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion.
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.
Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than useful.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
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 fall.
Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.