Best Karl Barth Quotes
- That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide… Accept
- True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God. Acting
- On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as… Assumption
- Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it. Argue
- Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so? Bible
- With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short,… Become Old
- Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis! Exegesis
- We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. Bible
- The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book of Dogmatics. They… Angel
- Abortion is 'the great modern sin. Abortion
- We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic… Antagonism
- Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to… Allayed
- To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...' Became
- The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths. All
- Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life. Action
- The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. Banished
- There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology. Extent
- Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible. Funny
- To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It… Breathing
- I have read many books, but the Bible reads me. Bible
- The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all. All
- When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us… All
- When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Brother
- Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation, Church
- In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say? Dogmatics