Robert Farrar Capon Quotes - Page 3

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• Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Miracle, Ordinary, Weight

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• If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

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  Meals, Matter, Chance

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• Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

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  Long, Unnecessary, Stew

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• 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.

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  Food, Forever, Cooking

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• The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

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  Unemployment, Pathology, Shock

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• What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

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  Difficult

  Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel Against the Wisdom of the World”, p.56, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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.

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  Home, Wine, Cities

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