When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Karl Barth More Quotes by Karl Barth More Quotes From Karl Barth The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history. Karl Barth boulders resurrection jesus The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that. Karl Barth argument sides littles We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. Karl Barth newspapers hands Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE. Karl Barth gratitude men jesus It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart. Karl Barth angel together play Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. Karl Barth laughter humor happiness All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction. Karl Barth judging men thinking In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. Karl Barth church jesus christ The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. Karl Barth vocabulary christian conversation The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book of Dogmatics. They laugh at the fact that volume follows volume, and each is thicker than the previous ones. As they laugh, they say to one another, ‘Look! Here he comes now with his little pushcart full of volumes of the Dogmatics!’—and they laugh about the persons who write so much about Karl Barth instead of writing about the things he is trying to write about. Truly, the angels laugh. Karl Barth angel writing book The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field. Karl Barth sulky joy way There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts. Karl Barth lips heart song One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things. Karl Barth powerful ocean weight Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate. Karl Barth hate change god Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Karl Barth confidence-in-god possibility religion Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. Karl Barth grace expression life Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before Karl Barth sin light Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. Karl Barth truth men lying This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before. Karl Barth limits kindness jesus Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are. Karl Barth evil-things evil-within sin
