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Robert Farrar Capon

"Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but out of the shipwreck of all human efforts whatsoever."

Source : Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.213, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Robert Farrar Capon

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“I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.”
“Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.”
“All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.”
“Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?”
“If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.”
“It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.”
“A good threat is worth a thousand tests.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.”

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