Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon
“Parables are not rules and regulations. They are not designs for living. They are not blueprints for a better world. They are pictures of the way things are in the kingdom of God.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“Food is the first sacrament. It is the sign and symbol of God's love for us. It is the means by which he nourishes us, sustains us, and gives us life.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“The last thing I want to be is a nice person. I want to be a holy person. A nice person is a person who doesn't upset anyone. A holy person is a person who upsets the right people.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward for being good, but of being raised from the dead.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“The world is like a sheet of paper on which something has been written, and on which something has been written again, and on which something has been written again. There is no spot on which something has not been written.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“The Christian religion is not about the righteous, but about the unrighteous. It is not about the well, but about the sick. It is not about the saved, but about the lost.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“The only real death that a human being can ever die is the death of the will.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“Theology, you see, is not a list of persistent questions, but a list of insistent answers. It is not about what we can never know, but about what we can never unknow.”— Robert Farrar Capon
“The Incarnation is the ultimate scandal. It is the story of God becoming a human being, a creature, a piece of meat. It is the story of God becoming vulnerable, mortal, and killable.”— Robert Farrar Capon