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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

The Word ought to be exposed in the words — 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

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best. — 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

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

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity. — Karl Barth

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

I haven't even read everything I wrote. — Karl Barth

The Bible itself has a hundred theologies.

(Karl Barth, January 27, 1959 to English Colloquia in Basel) — Raymond Kemp Anderson

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

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. — Karl Barth

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself — Karl Barth

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God. — Karl Barth

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

Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church. — Karl Barth

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. — Karl Barth

The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world. — Karl Barth

Karl Barth once wittily remarked, One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety ... — Karl Barth

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths. — Karl Barth

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians. — Karl Barth

Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude. — Karl Barth

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. — Karl Barth

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say? — Karl Barth

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. — Karl Barth

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. — Karl Barth

Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible. — Karl Barth

Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously. — Karl Barth

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. — Karl Barth

Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. — Karl Barth

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German. — Karl Barth

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved. — Karl Barth

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. — Karl Barth

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history. — Karl Barth

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation. — Karl Barth

Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation, — Karl Barth

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts. — Karl Barth

The Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world. — Karl Barth

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself. — Karl Barth

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. — Karl Barth

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics, — Karl Barth

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself. — Karl Barth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth. — 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

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

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

Faith is never identical with piety. — Karl 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

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

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. — Karl 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

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