Quotes by : Robert Farrar Capon

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction....

The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the....

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty I want....

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.

However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments:....

Does it not whet your appetite for the critical opera omnia of such an author, where he will freely have....

judgment, as it is portrayed in the parables of Jesus (not to mention the rest of the New Testament)....

What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic -- of imagining there are only a handful....

Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something....