Karl Barth Quotes
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.
Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.
Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.
On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.
A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.
No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.
To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.
The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.
The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...