Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. Karl Barth More Quotes by Karl Barth More Quotes From Karl Barth There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical. Karl Barth prejudiceguaranteesideas Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. Karl Barth be-goodmen God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart. Karl Barth angel Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest. Karl Barth pietyidentical 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. Karl Barth christianhousetree Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible. Karl Barth impossibility A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity. Karl Barth activitydeterminelimits The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them. Karl Barth atheistlaughingheaven Abortion is 'the great modern sin. Karl Barth abortionsinchristian It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. Karl Barth forgivenesschristianlooks The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all. Karl Barth sulkytheologianjoy Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. Karl Barth interpreterperfectlife Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. Karl Barth challenging-the-status-quorevelationsgod What God chooses for us children of men is always the best. Karl Barth children-of-menmenchildren True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God. Karl Barth actingdeterminationmen For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart. Karl Barth churchsufferingheart 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 our-livesmotivefacts No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science. Karl Barth claimsmen Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it. Karl Barth repetitivechurchcriticism Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity. Karl Barth subjectivityventurelittles
