Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

- Robert Farrar Capon

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

- Robert Farrar Capon

If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him i…

- 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 t…

- Robert Farrar Capon

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

- Robert Farrar Capon

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reform…

- Robert Farrar Capon

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 eithe…

- Robert Farrar Capon

The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formul…

- Robert Farrar Capon

What are you going to do with your freedom?

- Robert Farrar Capon