142 Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

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.

Women are like cheese strudels. When first baked, they are crisp and fresh on the outside, but the filling is unsettled and indigestible; in age, the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling comes at last into its own.

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.

We are supposed to represent a Lord who came not to judge the world but to save it. Our business should be simply to keep everybody in the net of his kingdom until we reach the farther shore. Sorting is strictly his department, not ours.

Both heaven and hell are populated entirely and only by forgiven sinners. Hell is just a courtesy for those who insist they want no part of forgiveness.

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.

You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because at the very worst, all you can be is dead – and for him who is the Resurrection and the Life, that just makes you his cup of tea.

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?

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody’s church.