True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these;… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
