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> [The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/the-resurrection-of-jesus-was-like-a-boulder-crashing-into-the-pool/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

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> [What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/what-happened-on-that-day-of-easter-became-was-and-remained-the/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

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## More by Karl Barth

> [If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/if-i-have-a-system-it-is-limited-to-a-recognition-of-what-kierkegaard/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/humor-is-the-opposite-of-all-self-admiration-and-self-praise/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [“Godlessness is not… a possibility, but an ontological impossibility for man. Man is not without, but with God. This is not to say, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/godlessness-is-not-a-possibility-but-an-ontological-impossibility-for/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/when-we-are-at-our-wits-end-for-an-answer-then-the-holy-spirit-can/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/radically-and-basically-all-sin-is-simply-ingratitude/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/dogmatics-is-the-testing-of-church-doctrine-and-proclamation/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/god-listens-to-bach-while-the-angels-listen-to-mozart/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [“Holy Communion is offered to all, as surely as the living Jesus Christ is for all, as surely as all of us are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/holy-communion-is-offered-to-all-as-surely-as-the-living-jesus-christ/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/i-don-t-believe-in-universalism-but-i-do-believe-in-jesus-christ-the/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/in-jesus-god-wills-to-be-true-god-not-only-in-the-height-but-also-in/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/the-term-laity-is-one-of-the-worst-in-the-vocabulary-of-religion-and/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/no-one-can-be-saved-in-virtue-of-what-he-can-do-everyone-can-be-saved/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/society-is-now-really-ruled-by-its-own-logos-say-rather-by-a-whole/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/there-will-be-no-song-on-our-lips-if-there-be-no-anguish-in-our-hearts/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

> [With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/with-an-ear-open-to-your-musical-dialectic-one-can-be-young-and/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

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