Adam Pomfret

“To most people”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin

“However…(my brother Howard, who’s in real estate, says nobody ever heard a piece of good news that began with however)…”
― Robert Farrar Capon, The Man Who Met God in a Bar: The Gospel According to Marvin

“Therefore to fully understand we must expand it: “God is not—but ought to be.” “God is not—yet.” Is this not the true content of our bereavement?”
― Robert W. Jenson, Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation

“There is and can be no greater offense to the way all of us now manage our lives, than the forgiveness of sins. Also the Church has much difficulty with it. On the one hand, if we are all ok in any case, there is nothing to forgive; “acceptance” is not the same as “forgiveness.” “Accept yourself as you are” is not the same as “I forgive you,” and assuredly not as “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, I absolve you of your sin.” In the mainline churches, and it seems increasingly in the evangelical churches, forgiveness is taken for a matter of course; but then it is not forgiveness.”
― Robert W. Jenson, Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation