Karl Barth Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Evil Within, Sin, Evil Things

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• I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

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  Jesus, Believe, Christ

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• One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

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  Powerful, Ocean, Weight

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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

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  Christian, Hard Times, Grace

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• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "The Harper Book of Quotations". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

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• There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

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  Song, Heart, Lips

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• The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

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  Jesus, Boulders, Resurrection

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• 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.

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  Change, God, Hate

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 11: The Doctrine of God II.2 § 34-35”, p.122, A&C Black

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• The Devil may also make use of morality.

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  Devil, Use, May

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Jesus, Men

  Karl Barth (1960). “The Humanity of God”, p.47, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

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  Life, Expression, Grace

  "An Introduction to Protestant Theology". Book by Helmut Gollwitzer, 1982.

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Kindness, Limits

  Karl Barth (1960). “The Humanity of God”, p.62, Westminster John Knox Press

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• 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.

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  Joy, Way, Sulky

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• Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

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  Jesus, Scripture, Christ

  1934 The Barmen Declaration adopted by the Confessing Church in Germany (translated by D S Bax, 1984).

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• God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

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  Angel

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• 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.

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  Christian, Breathing, Needs

  Karl Barth (2002). “Prayer”, p.15, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

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  Needs, Proof, Theology

  "Quotations from the Wayside". Book by Brenda Wong, 1998.

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• The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

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  Christian, Vocabulary, Conversation

  Karl Barth (1986). “A Karl Barth Reader”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

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  Men, Be Good

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• Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

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  Gratitude, Heaven, Grace

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• Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

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  Impossibility

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.381, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

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  Religion, Possibility, Confidence In God

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

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  Idols, Doubt, World

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• 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.

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  Men, Sin, Committed

  Karl Barth (1995). “Gespräche, 1959-1962”, Tvz - Theologischer Verlag Zurich

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

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  Jesus, Church, Christ

  Karl Barth (1981). “Letters, 1961-1968”

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