Karl Barth Quotes

• Whether the angels play only Bach in praising God I am not quite sure; I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.

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• It is a bad sign when Christians are frightened by  ‘political’ sermons—as if Christian preaching could be anything but political.

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• Basically and comprehensively, therefore, to be human is to be with God.

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• Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

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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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• We definitely showed a month off, but I should have had us ready.

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• 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.

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• No one can be saved–in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved–in virtue of what God can do.

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• Faith in God’s revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

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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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• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

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• 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.

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• Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

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• Faith is never identical with piety.

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• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

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• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

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• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

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

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

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

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Karl Barth (22)

Birth:	10th May, 1886
Death:	10th December, 1968
Nationality:	Swiss
Profession:	Author

About

Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Barth is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. His influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on April 20, 1962.

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