There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not… — 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
