Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon

… the divine knowing – what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word – all that eternal intellectual activity isn’t just daydreaming. It’s the cause of everything that is. God doesn’t find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn’t.

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Hair

Thinking

… the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves – namely, its own being.

Desire

Moving

Self

…there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?

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…we are saved by Christ alone who raises us from the dead – from the absolution of our death. We come before him at the judgement with no handwriting whatsoever against us. It’s simply cheating to say you believe that and then renege on it by postulating some list of extra-rotten crimes for which Christ has to send you to hell. He, the universal Redeemer, is the only judge; as far as he’s concerned, the only mandatory sentence is to life and life abundant.

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A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

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A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins—that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus’ resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

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Jesus

A silent lover is one who doesn’t know his job.

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At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

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But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace – the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors – makes all infirmities occasions of glory.

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Jesus

Mistake

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

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Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

Robert Farrar Capon

… the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves – namely, its own being.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

A silent lover is one who doesn’t know his job.

At the root of many a woman’s failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

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