Top 100 Farrar Quotes
#1. We are men, and human words are all we have: even the Word of God is composed actually of the words of men." (HUNTING THE DIVINE FOX, by Robert Farrar Capon,
Suzette Haden Elgin
#2. In no country is it more important to cultivate good manners, than in our own," Eliza Farrar wrote, "where we acknowledge no distinctions but what are founded on character and manners." America's
Megan Marshall
#4. The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.
Robert Farrar Capon
#6. By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons!
Frederic Farrar
#7. We were never told that it would not hurt, only that nothing would ever finally go wrong; not that it would not often go hard with us but that there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
Robert Farrar Capon
#11. The anger inside me simmers away at a constant roil. It's as if I can't think about anything else. I turn the events of the last couple of months over and over in my head.
Marissa Farrar
#13. I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
Robert Farrar Capon
#14. The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home. It is I grant you, an incautious and extravagant hope. But only outlandish hopes can make themselves at home.
Robert Farrar Capon
#15. With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
Robert Farrar Capon
#16. Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.
Robert Farrar Capon
#17. If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.
Robert Farrar Capon
#19. The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.
Steve Farrar
#20. 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
#21. People always assume that the church's primary business is to teach morality. But it isn't; it's to proclaim grace, forgiveness, and the free party for all. It's to announce the reconciling relationship of God to everybody and to invite them simply to believe it and celebrate it.
Robert Farrar Capon
#22. God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.
Robert Farrar Capon
#23. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.
That is the unconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made in the image of God.
Robert Farrar Capon
#24. In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.
Robert Farrar Capon
#25. If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.
Frederic Farrar
#26. Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
Frederic William Farrar
#27. prepackaged slices or the Supermarket swiss (which has the texture but no where near the flavor, of rubber gloves)
Robert Farrar Capon
#28. Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.
Robert Farrar Capon
#29. Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.
Steve Farrar
#30. At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Robert Farrar Capon
#31. It's the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing
Steve Farrar
#32. For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic William Farrar
#33. How should we provide for our families? Financially, spatially (be near them), emotionally, morally, spiritually. ... I don't have what it takes to provide for my family spiritually; I need Jesus.
Steve Farrar
#34. 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.
Robert Farrar Capon
#35. 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.
Robert Farrar Capon
#36. 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.
Robert Farrar Capon
#37. Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.
Robert Farrar Capon
#38. Goodness itself, in other words, if it is sufficiently committed to plausible, right-handed, strong-arm methods, will in the very name of goodness do all and more than all that evil ever had in mind.
Robert Farrar Capon
#40. There is only one unpardonable sin, and that is to withhold pardon from others.
Robert Farrar Capon
#42. Grace cannot prevail ... until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.
Robert Farrar Capon
#43. Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
Charles Farrar Browne
#44. Judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance
Robert Farrar Capon
#45. But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
Frederic William Farrar
#46. People converted by fear-mongering are people converted from evil, not to the truth.
Robert Farrar Capon
#47. It is precisely our sins, and not our goodnesses, that most commend us to the grace of God.
Robert Farrar Capon
#48. Religion, therefore - despite the correctness of its insistence that something needs to be done about our relationship with God - remains unqualified bad news: it traps us in a game we will always and everywhere lose.
Robert Farrar Capon
#49. Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.
Robert Farrar Capon
#50. 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.
Robert Farrar Capon
#51. It was John Flavel who said to his congregation in England, some three hundred years ago, "Some providences of God, like Hebrew letters, are best understood backwards.
Steve Farrar
#52. The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be offered by abstinence as well as use; to be appreciated, not simply absorbed. Hunger remains the best sauce.
Robert Farrar Capon
#53. I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal ... you hope for.
John Farrar
#54. The address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.
Frederic Farrar
#55. The Christian religion is not about the soul; it is about man, body and all, and about the world of things -with- which he was created, and -in- which he is redeemed. Don't knock materiality. God invented it.
Robert Farrar Capon
#56. Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.
Steve Farrar
#57. It's just misery to try to keep count of what God is no longer counting.
Robert Farrar Capon
#58. The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.
Steve Farrar
#59. Everybody, even the worst stinker on earth, is somebody for whom Christ died.
Robert Farrar Capon
#60. Unless I am mistaken, it was Mr. Welch himself (an adamant total abstainer) who persuaded American Protestantism to abandon what the Lord obviously thought rather kindly of.
Robert Farrar Capon
#61. And the sad fact is that the church, both now and at far too many times in its history, has found it easier to act as if it were selling the sugar of moral and spiritual achievement rather than the salt ofJesus' passion and death.
Robert Farrar Capon
#63. The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.
Robert Farrar Capon
#65. 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.
Robert Farrar Capon
#66. Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.
Robert Farrar Capon
#67. 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
#68. Jesus didn't shy away from sinners, so why should the church? And don't tell me the church welcomes sinners. I know better. It welcomes only sinners who repent and then never seriously need forgiveness again.
Robert Farrar Capon
#69. We are saved gratis, by grace. We do nothing and we deserve nothing; it is all, absolutely and without qualification, one huge, hilarious gift.
Robert Farrar Capon
#70. To make belief the touchstone of the kingdom's operation is simply to turn faith into just one more cold work. Of course we must believe; but only because there is nothing left for us to do but believe.
Robert Farrar Capon
#71. It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.
Robert Farrar Capon
#72. Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness - the hilarity beyond all liking and happening - that has been pounding on our door all along.
Robert Farrar Capon
#73. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden
that is human sympathy.
Frederic Farrar
#74. The only reason that judgment comes into it at all is the sad fact that there will always be dummies who refuse to trust a good thing when it's handed to them on a platter.
Robert Farrar Capon
#76. Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
John Farrar
#79. If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.
Frederic Farrar
#81. Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
Frederic William Farrar
#82. IMITATION CITRUS FLAVORED DIETARY ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED CARBONATED BEVERAGE. That, I submit, is not a label; it is an incantation. Someday, it should be set to a suitable plainsong tune or Anglican chant.
Robert Farrar Capon
#83. My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
Charles Farrar Browne
#84. If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.
Robert Farrar Capon
#85. What can I do to provide for my children that's really significant? The answer is to love their mother unconditionally.
Steve Farrar
#86. There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
Frederic William Farrar
#87. An eye for an eye won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people.
Robert Farrar Capon
#88. A world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows fall.
Robert Farrar Capon
#89. 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.
Robert Farrar Capon
#90. Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.
Steve Farrar
#91. The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.
John Farrar
#92. I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
Charles Farrar Browne
#93. The wickedness of the church can be one thing and one only: turning the Good News of Jesus into the bad news of religion.
Robert Farrar Capon
#94. What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic
of imagining there are only a handful of properly effective formulas for conjuring up the mystery, when in fact the mystery is always at work, independent of any formula whatsoever.
Robert Farrar Capon
#95. Cover each with plastic wrap (you see, I hope, that I am no mere antiquarian, insisting on barefoot walks through unimproved sculleries. I am as grateful as anyone for real progress as any modernist. More so, perhaps. Anything that preserves freshness for the pot is on the side of the angels.
Robert Farrar Capon
#97. The only result of a truly dedicated campaign to get rid of evil will be the abolition of literally everybody.
Robert Farrar Capon
#98. The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.
Robert Farrar Capon
#99. Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.
Robert Farrar Capon
#100. Grace doesn't sell; you can hardly even give it away, because it works only for losers and no one wants to stand in their line.
Robert Farrar Capon
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