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Robert Farrar Capon

"He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. He emphatically does not promise to meet only the odd winner of the self-improvement lottery. He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing."

Source : Robert Farrar Capon (1996). “The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-found of Church History”, p.15, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Robert Farrar Capon

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“My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.”
“I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.”
“The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.”
“My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey... serious Jim Carrey though.”
“Your children will go to public school and they will be trained for somewhere around 15,000 hours in ungodly secular thought. And then they'll go to Sunday school and they'll color a picture of Noah's ark. And you think that's going to stand against the lies that they are being told?”
“I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.”

Source : Interview with Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. July 15, 2011.
“Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.”

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