Top 80 Robert Farrar Capon Quotes (2024 Update)
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Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “What are you going to do with your freedom?”

51. “What are you going to do with your freedom?”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.”

54. “If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “If, while we hold our times here in our own hands, all we have to do to be reconciled is believe he has them in his, how much less will we have to do there when we shall see they are in Christ’s hand alone – that is, see them held for our eternal enjoyment as all right?”

55. “If, while we hold our times here in our own hands, all we have to do to be reconciled is believe he has them in his, how much less will we have to do there when we shall see they are in Christ’s hand alone – that is, see them held for our eternal enjoyment as all right?”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch’s Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.”

56. “Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch’s Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than useful.”

57. “Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than useful.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Against all the propaganda for fancy eating and plain cooking, I hope to persuade you to cook fancy and just plain eat. It is better for your soul.”

58. “Against all the propaganda for fancy eating and plain cooking, I hope to persuade you to cook fancy and just plain eat. It is better for your soul.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.”

59. “Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “To make belief the touchstone of the kingdom’s operation is simply to turn faith into just one more cold work. Of course we must believe; but only because there is nothing left for us to do but believe.”

60. “To make belief the touchstone of the kingdom’s operation is simply to turn faith into just one more cold work. Of course we must believe; but only because there is nothing left for us to do but believe.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “What role have I left for religion? None. And I have left none because the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ leaves none. Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.”

61. “What role have I left for religion? None. And I have left none because the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ leaves none. Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “The gluing together of a clutch of human beings into some semblance of a city has never been more than remotely possible. We are all sinners, and it’s the people closest to us that see us at our worst. The family gets the lion’s share of life’s provocations, aggravations, and enervations. Nowhere is there so much fur quite so ready to be rubbed the wrong way.”

62. “The gluing together of a clutch of human beings into some semblance of a city has never been more than remotely possible. We are all sinners, and it’s the people closest to us that see us at our worst. The family gets the lion’s share of life’s provocations, aggravations, and enervations. Nowhere is there so much fur quite so ready to be rubbed the wrong way.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into corners. The spiral cream whip... is a little better at reaching out of the way spots, but it defies firm handling. If anything ever sticks to the pot, you will feel as if you are working with a wet noodle.”

63. “On the other hand the usual flat whisk is awkward for tall, narrow pots, and it, too, is weak at scouring into corners. The spiral cream whip... is a little better at reaching out of the way spots, but it defies firm handling. If anything ever sticks to the pot, you will feel as if you are working with a wet noodle.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “We spend our lives invoking upon ourselves imagined necessities, creating God in the image of our own fears – and all the while, he is beating us over the head with the balloon of grace and the styrofoam baseball bat of a vindicating judgment. The history of salvation is slapstick all the way, right up to and including the end.”

64. “We spend our lives invoking upon ourselves imagined necessities, creating God in the image of our own fears – and all the while, he is beating us over the head with the balloon of grace and the styrofoam baseball bat of a vindicating judgment. The history of salvation is slapstick all the way, right up to and including the end.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “In this vale of sorrows, we should be careful about allowing abundance to con us out of hunger.”

65. “In this vale of sorrows, we should be careful about allowing abundance to con us out of hunger.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Let a man fast until he is free to eat like a true son of Adam. Let him take but one meal a day; let him fast in good earnest. But then let him take meals worthy of the name. It is bread that strengthens man’s heart; it is the valleys thick with grain that laugh and sing. It is only when a man, by feast and fast, lays a firm grip on the fatness of the earth that he himself will return to sanity and substance.”

66. “Let a man fast until he is free to eat like a true son of Adam. Let him take but one meal a day; let him fast in good earnest. But then let him take meals worthy of the name. It is bread that strengthens man’s heart; it is the valleys thick with grain that laugh and sing. It is only when a man, by feast and fast, lays a firm grip on the fatness of the earth that he himself will return to sanity and substance.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under any and all signs. They’re a bit like the church. As long as we see them as an earnest of the kingdom, they’re all right; when we put on airs and act as if they were the kingdom itself, they look just silly.”

67. “However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under any and all signs. They’re a bit like the church. As long as we see them as an earnest of the kingdom, they’re all right; when we put on airs and act as if they were the kingdom itself, they look just silly.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.”

68. “What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.”

69. “The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”

70. “Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.”

71. “At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.”

72. “If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “The notion that people won’t sin as long as you keep them well supplied with guilt and holy terror is a bit overblown.”

73. “The notion that people won’t sin as long as you keep them well supplied with guilt and holy terror is a bit overblown.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness – the hilarity beyond all liking and happening – that has been pounding on our door all along.”

74. “Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness – the hilarity beyond all liking and happening – that has been pounding on our door all along.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Only a daily renewed astonishment at things as they are can save us from the idols; it is our love of real processes and actual beings that keeps us sane.”

75. “Only a daily renewed astonishment at things as they are can save us from the idols; it is our love of real processes and actual beings that keeps us sane.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.”

76. “It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.”

77. “Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.”

78. “Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Goodness itself, in other words, if it is sufficiently committed to plausible, right-handed, strong-arm methods, will in the very name of goodness do all and more than all that evil ever had in mind.”

79. “Goodness itself, in other words, if it is sufficiently committed to plausible, right-handed, strong-arm methods, will in the very name of goodness do all and more than all that evil ever had in mind.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic – of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever.”

80. “What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic – of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Keep a spirited Christian horse and a useful ethical donkey. But don’t try to breed a mule.”

81. “Keep a spirited Christian horse and a useful ethical donkey. But don’t try to breed a mule.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “Any authentically Christian system is going to have to keep off the kick of human merit and demerit and stick resolutely to a universalism of grace that overrides the subject of human works.”

82. “Any authentically Christian system is going to have to keep off the kick of human merit and demerit and stick resolutely to a universalism of grace that overrides the subject of human works.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon Quote: “God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We’re all crazy about each other because we’re made in the image of Someone who’s been crazy about us.”

83. “God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We’re all crazy about each other because we’re made in the image of Someone who’s been crazy about us.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

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