One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things. Karl Barth More Quotes by Karl Barth More Quotes From 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 hard-timesgracechristian When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner. Karl Barth committedsinmen The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Karl Barth evilorderjesus Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth. Karl Barth gratitudegraceheaven 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 heightdepthjesus The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us. Karl Barth climbingmeanjesus The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths. Karl Barth question-markmark The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. Karl Barth theologyproofneeds 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 ariselying Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world. Karl Barth idolsdoubtworld He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all. Karl Barth mastersjesuschrist To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life. Karl Barth breathingchristianneeds We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ. Karl Barth essencesonjesus To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...' Karl Barth revelationsflesh Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it. Karl Barth unbeliefbeliefarguing 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 thememenphilosophy Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude. Karl Barth ingratitudesin As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God Karl Barth inabilityrecognitiongiving 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. Karl Barth substitutionbehalfposition 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
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