A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity. Karl Barth More Quotes by Karl Barth More Quotes From Karl Barth The Devil may also make use of morality. Karl Barth devilusemay Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise. Karl Barth admirationselfopposites 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 musicalearsyoung What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself. Karl Barth christianmenjesus I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings. Karl Barth encountersmentwo Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity. Karl Barth formhumanity Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis! Karl Barth exegesis That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway. Karl Barth passionlonelinesschristian A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes. Karl Barth communicationeyewaiting In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say? Karl Barth thinking 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 moderationmysteriouslimits 'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety. Karl Barth neverthelessanxietyjoy Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church. Karl Barth church The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance. Karl Barth inspirationhappinessmen I haven't even read everything I wrote. Karl Barth havens Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation. Karl Barth testingdoctrinechurch 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. Karl Barth normallastsmen Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. Karl Barth releaselightsound Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. Karl Barth angelpraiseplay We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below. Karl Barth passionbusinesswar
