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God Quotes by Karl Barth
- 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.
- 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,…
- 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.
- 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.
- Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
- 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…
- True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
- Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which…
- All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and…
- This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in…
- The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own…
- As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our…
- Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD…
- Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change…
- Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice…
- Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi