Karl Barth Quotes

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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.
• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
• No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
• 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,…
• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
• It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are…
• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
• Faith is never identical with piety.
• The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord…
• In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness,…
• What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
• Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
• One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.
• Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
• There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
• The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto…
• Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

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