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Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Robert Farrar Capon
Running, Grace, Steam
Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.

Robert Farrar Capon
Brother, Doors, Grace
Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.72, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Robert Farrar Capon
Grace, Easier, Remains
Robert Farrar Capon (2000). “The Fingerprints of God: Tracking the Divine Suspect Through a History of Images”, p.55, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Robert Farrar Capon
Hate, Law, Grace
Robert Farrar Capon (1997). “Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace”, p.5, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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