The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God. He Himself is the way. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“Religion possesses no solution of the problem of life; rather it makes of the problem a wholly insoluble enigma. Religion neither discovers… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“What is there within the Bible?" "It is a dangerous question. We might do better not to come too near this burning… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety... — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share
“Godlessness is not… a possibility, but an ontological impossibility for man. Man is not without, but with God. This is not to say, of… — Karl Barth Copy Share
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give… — Karl Barth Copy Share
“Holy Communion is offered to all, as surely as the living Jesus Christ is for all, as surely as all of us are not… — Karl Barth Copy Share
I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all — Karl Barth Copy Share
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human… — Karl Barth Copy Share
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth Copy Share
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can… — Karl Barth Copy Share
Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning… — Karl Barth Copy Share
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in… — Karl Barth Copy Share
