Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

Grace is the truth that Jesus came to give us.

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.

You may have done some really nifty things in life, but if you think they're going to get you into Heaven, forget it. The only way any of us are going to get in is by receiving God's gift of grace, which is available to every person.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.

It is our privilege to know that we are saved.

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

Without Christ there is no hope.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'

"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.