\”We enter marriage as we enter a wood: with purpose, with hope, with direction. We continue in marriage as we continue in a wood: confused, haunted, and imminently lost. And we survive marriage as we survive a wood: by a combination of dumb luck, faulty knowledge, and helpless goodwill – and at the price of […]
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\”To the question \”Why do you have a beard?\” seventeen answers are possible. They are as follows: (Simple): I like it.(Taciturn): I just do.(Sheepish): Lots of men have beards.(Rude): None of your business.(Cowardly): Oh? Don’t you like it?(Confident): It is manly.(Overconfident): It keeps women away.(Practical, in repectu causae efficientis): Because I don’t shave.\”(Agnostic): I don’t
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\”Set down here, therefore, the fact that orthodox Christianity has nothing against the body, and everything for it. First, God made it. Second, God loves it. Third, God took it to himself in the womb of Mary. Fourth, he walked the earth in it, not with disdain but with enough obvious pleasure to acquire a
\”The dieter is condemned to bitter bondage, to a life that dares not let food in. But the faster is someone preparing for a feast. His Lent leads to an Easter, and to mirth and weight of Glory.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 100)
\”If the past is important only as a transition to the present, then the present is important only as a transition to the future: the much-touted evolutionary meaning of history turns out to be one that never arrives.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 68)
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\”Culture – civilization – is the sum of our priestly successes, the evidence of the fulfillment of our vocation. The life of Adam – of every human being – is parks and plazas, and houses worthy of our priesthood; it is falling in love with the hinted garden in the world and lifting it into
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\”We like to believe that we see ourselves as living in places, as acting in time, as the protagonists of real history. But we seldom get near the realities: it is the abstract substitutes, the mental counters, that our minds fasten on.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 46)
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\”Humankind cannot stand very much reality: the strongest doses of it are invariably dismissed as silliness.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the Word, 46)
\”Men who have lived nowhere are buried nowhere.No Monument shall mark his head; no local roots clutch his breast.Richmond and Kew have not undone him; Syracuse and Albany have not destroyed him.No place wore him away, and nowhere receives him at last.He shall return no more to his house; neither shall his place know him
\”For my money, the only historical Jesus there is, for better or worse, is the Jesus the Holy Spirit has disclosed to us on the pages of the New Testament – every word of which, one way or another, represents something the Spirit thought supremely worth mentioning about Jesus.\” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Romance of the
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