Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.

Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell. Look at the cross - we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us - all who will let Him - salvation.

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His kingdom! The moment you got saved, He enrolled you in His school the school of suffering and affliction.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Life is more about losing than winning.