“However grand our sacramental downsittings and updressings may be, they remain only and precisely sacraments: real presences, under particular signs, of the happier order that faith can discover under any and all signs. They're a bit like the church. As long as we see them as an earnest of the kingdom, they're all right; when we put on airs and act as if they were the kingdom itself, they look just silly.” FaithChurchFancyKingdomDinner PartySacramentDinner Parties Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“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.” MadePlaySongChurchPoorMistakeRecordsStudentsTaughtConcernIllPianoMaking MistakesDutch Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.” TruthChurchBombsBasementsTime Bomb Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“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.” YearsJesusWinningChurchLordNiceEgoCooksFaithfulServantPreacherHouseholdCompellingCongregationOratorsStewardsProper Time Author:Robert Farrar Capon
