142 Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

It’s just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting.

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.

There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.

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. The world of winners will buy case lots of moral advice, grosses of guilt-edged prohibitions, skids of self-improvement techniques, and whole truckloads of transcendental hot air. But it will not buy free forgiveness because that threatens to let the riffraff into the Supper of the Lamb.

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.

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

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.