142 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order – all of it – raised and glorified.

To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need forever is taste.

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

People converted by fear-mongering are people converted from evil, not to the truth.

God’s program is grace, not scorekeeping; free gift, not reward and punishment in this world.

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.