Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

• Christianity is not a religion. Christianity is the proclamation of the end of religion, not of a new religion, or even of the best of all religions. If the cross is the sign of anything, it's the sign that God has gone out of the religion business and solved all of the world's problems without requiring a single human being to do a single religious thing. What the cross is actually a sign of is the fact that religion can't do a thing about the world's problems - that it never did work and it never will

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  God, Religious, Religion

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• Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

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  Running, Grace, Steam

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing.

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  Loss, Self, Promise

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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 reformable. None of those things works.

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  Jesus, Reform, Christ

  "30 Good Minutes", www.30goodminutes.org. October 31, 1993.

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• 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 formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

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  Mean, Responsibility, Passion

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• La gracia es la celebración de la vida, que acosa implacablemente a todos los no celebrantes del mundo. Es una fiesta flotante y cósmica que se abre paso a gritos por las calles del universo, arrojando la dulzura de sus casaciones a todas las ventanas, golpeando todas las puertas en una hilaridad más allá de todo gusto y acontecimiento, hasta que los pródigos salen al fin y bailan, y los hermanos mayores se quitan por fin los dedos de las orejas.

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  Brother, Doors, Grace

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.72, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Pero al mismo tiempo, había algo que necesitábamos desde el principio, y que sin duda necesitaremos de aquí en adelante en la Nueva Jerusalén: la capacidad de tomarnos en serio nuestra libertad y actuar en consecuencia, de vivir sin miedo a cometer errores, sino sabiendo que ningún error puede compararse con el amor que nos atrae a casa. Mi arrepentimiento, en consecuencia, no es tanto por mis fallos como por la actitud de dos bits hacia ellos por la que los hice más soberanos que la gracia. La gracia -el imperativo de oír la música, no sólo de escuchar los errores- convierte todas las debilidades en ocasiones de gloria.

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  Jesus, Attitude, Mistake

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

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  Grace, Easier, Remains

  Robert Farrar Capon (2000). “The Fingerprints of God: Tracking the Divine Suspect Through a History of Images”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Una oveja perdida es, a efectos prácticos, una oveja muerta. Es admitir que estamos muertos en nuestros pecados, que no tenemos poder para salvarnos ni para convencer a nadie de que merecemos ser salvados. Es el reconocimiento de que toda nuestra vida está fuera de nuestras manos y que si alguna vez volvemos a vivir, nuestra vida será enteramente el regalo de algún pastor misericordioso. Dios nos encuentra en el desierto de la muerte (no en el jardín de la mejora) y en el poder de la resurrección de Jesús, nos pone sobre sus hombros regocijándose y nos lleva a casa.

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  Jesus, Home, Garden

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Taught, Saved

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.208, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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 is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.

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  Pain, Dirty, Hands

  Robert Farrar Capon (1967). “The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books”, p.170, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The life of grace is not an effort on our part to achieve a goal we set ourselves. It is a continually renewed attempt simply to believe that someone else has done all the achieving that is needed and to live in relationship with that person, whether we achieve or not. If that doesn't seem like much to you, you're right: it isn't. And, as a matter of fact, the life of grace is even less than that. It's not even our life at all, but the life of that Someone Else rising like a tide in the ruins of our death.

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  Believe, Goal, Effort

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• The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

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  Song, Mistake, Play

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• Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but out of the shipwreck of all human efforts whatsoever.

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  Jesus, Best Effort, Example

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.213, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.

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  Jesus, Jobs, Humanity

  Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.2, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.

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  Aceptación, Ser, Dar

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• However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

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  Hate, Law, Grace

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.5, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• ...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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  Jesus, Games, Two

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• La salvación es un regalo, no un trato.

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  Salvation, Given, Bargains

  Robert Farrar Capon (1967). “The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books”, p.328, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

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  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

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  World, Taste, Forget

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• Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

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  Lying, Simple, Cities

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• Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has ‘set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.’ After all the years the church has suffered under forceful preachers and winning orators, under compelling pulpiteers and clerical bigmouths with egos to match, how nice to hear that Jesus expects preachers in their congregations to be nothing more than faithful household cooks.

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  Jesus, Nice, Winning

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• You can fold up spiritually, morally, or intellectually and still be safe. Because 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.

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  Tea, Safe, Cups

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.292, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

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  Bottles, Juice, Luther

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