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However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace
— Robert Farrar Capon
People converted by fear-mongering are people converted from evil, not to the truth.
— Robert Farrar Capon
A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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
Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners
— Robert Farrar Capon
It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.
— Robert Farrar Capon
Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.
— Robert Farrar Capon
Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.
— Robert Farrar Capon
One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world
— Robert Farrar Capon
Everybody, even the worst stinker on earth, is somebody for whom Christ died.
— Robert Farrar Capon
Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.
— Robert Farrar Capon
There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.
— Robert Farrar Capon
Grace cannot prevail ... until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
— Robert Farrar Capon
It's just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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
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
Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.
— Robert Farrar Capon
Judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance
— Robert Farrar Capon
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.
— Robert Farrar Capon
All salt and no finesse makes Jack a dull cook.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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. — Robert Farrar Capon
What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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
God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.
— Robert Farrar Capon
It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.
— Robert Farrar Capon
The only result of a truly dedicated campaign to get rid of evil will be the abolition of literally everybody.
— Robert Farrar Capon
It is precisely our sins, and not our goodnesses, that most commend us to the grace of God.
— Robert Farrar Capon
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
— Robert Farrar Capon
We are saved gratis, by grace. We do nothing and we deserve nothing; it is all, absolutely and without qualification, one huge, hilarious gift.
— Robert Farrar Capon
The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
— Robert Farrar Capon
If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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.
— Robert Farrar Capon
An eye for an eye won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people.
— Robert Farrar Capon
prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)
— Robert Farrar Capon
The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion.
— 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
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
Paradox is the only basket large enough to hold truth:
— Robert Farrar Capon
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
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.
— Robert Farrar Capon
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
The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.
— Robert Farrar Capon
The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.
— Robert Farrar Capon
