142 Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

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

Everybody, even the worst stinker on earth, is somebody for whom Christ died.

And the sad fact is that the church, both now and at far too many times in its history, has found it easier to act as if it were selling the sugar of moral and spiritual achievement rather than the salt ofJesus’ passion and death.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners.

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

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.

Paradox is the only basket large enough to hold truth:.