“It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.” NeedsMindMadeSoulForeverFoodCookingFishesMeatMealsCulinaryRemedyCheeseSovereignSoupDessertSaladLargesseStinginess 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
“Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.” MenHeartMadeKnowingSleevesChinsHeads Up Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“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.” NeedsMadeTwoHomeJesusBitsAbilityMistakeAttitudeGraceFailingOne ThingNeededGloryDrawsErrorsOccasionsRepentanceCandleSovereignImperativesJerusalemJust ListenInfirmityTwo Bit Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all crazy about each other because we're made in the image of Someone who's been crazy about us.” WorldMadeGodCrazyDivineWhim Author:Robert Farrar Capon
