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To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. — Karl Barth

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all. — Karl Barth

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way — Karl Barth

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. — Karl Barth

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. — Karl Barth

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought. — Karl Barth

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate. — John Barth

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly. — Karl Barth

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. — Karl Barth

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before — Karl Barth

God has not the slightest need for our proofs. — Karl Barth

Heaven is the creation inconceivable to man; earth is the creation conceivable to him. — Karl Barth

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. — Karl Barth

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. — Uta Barth

I was a huge fan of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. — Jessica Barth

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. — John Barth

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality. — Karl Barth

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. — John Barth

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. — John Barth

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. — Karl Barth

Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done. — John Barth

And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them! — John Barth

Not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero. — John Barth

Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening. — John Barth

Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss. — John Barth

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. — John Barth

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. — Karl Barth

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn. — John Barth

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. — Karl Barth

Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ. — Karl Barth

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart. — Karl Barth

It's not difficult to be encyclopedic in a work of fiction; it's damned difficult to be encyclopedic, I suppose, in truth. — John Barth

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story. — John Barth

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject. — Karl Barth

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. — Karl Barth

Nobody knew how to be what they were right. — John Barth

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. — Karl Barth

Political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth, — Karl Barth

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. — John Barth

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art. — John Barth

The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself — John Barth

Only in living by the effect of Christ's sacrifice and after its pattern can the saints find out and attempt to do 'what pleases the Lord — Markus Barth

Faith is never identical with piety. — Karl Barth

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? — Karl Barth

Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it. — Karl Barth

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin. — Karl Barth

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. — Karl Barth

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all. — Karl Barth

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally. — Karl Barth

For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart. — Karl Barth

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me. — Karl Barth

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science. — Karl Barth

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. — Karl Barth

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology. — Karl Barth

Theology must have the character of a living procession. — Karl Barth

Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis! — Karl Barth

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history. — Karl Barth

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions. — John Barth

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God ... is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor. — Karl Barth

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth

Abortion is 'the great modern sin. — Karl Barth

Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist, — John Barth

The Devil may also make use of morality. — Karl Barth

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. — John Barth

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so? — Karl Barth

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time. — Karl Barth

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. — John Barth

No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do. — Karl Barth

Don't get cute.

Sorry. Born that way. — Christi Barth

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that. — Karl Barth

Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. — Karl Barth

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? — John Barth

[Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium. — John Barth

You're certain to get a decision in a trial. — John Barth

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth. — Karl Barth

I don't believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all — Karl Barth

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. — John Barth

Fear of scholasticism is the mark of a false prophet. - KARL BARTH — R. Scott Clark

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes. — John Barth

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. — John Barth

If you try, you've got a chance at succeeding. Failure isn't guaranteed. If you don't even try at all, you've already failed. — Christi Barth

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it! — John Barth

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. — Karl Barth

When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom. — John Barth

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity. — Karl Barth

Path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid- — John Barth

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. — Alan Barth

What is it with men," I said. "Always wanting to put things in my ass." They — Greg Barth

His head always felt about to ache, but never began to. — John Barth

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. — Karl Barth

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find - Who rather has sought and found us. Now — Karl Barth

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth

You take ordinary things and turn them rainbow bright. It's what makes you so special. — Christi Barth

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion. — John Barth

Peace on earth (Luke 2:14) is salvation for, not from, the world. — Markus Barth