Karl Barth Quotes

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hatefu...

...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Ph...

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the a...

The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and ...

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughl...

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at...

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most...

Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He come...

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to...

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounte...

God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and e...

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simp...

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself...

This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kind...

God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. ...

Faith is never identical with piety.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of...

I haven't even read everything I wrote.

God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei ...

In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lor...

He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not agai...

The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also wi...

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization ...

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God...

The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and es...

There is no such thing as a special biblical hermeneutics. But we have to learn that hermeneutics wh...

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition f...

There does not exist any more a holy mountain or a holy city or holy land which can be marked on a m...

The demand that the Bible should be read and understood and expounded historically is, therefore, ob...

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.