Karl Barth Quotes - Page 2

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

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 into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

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 Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.

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 calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.

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 is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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 of God.

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, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

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

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.