Quotes of Karl Barth - somelinesforyou

“ Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. ”

- Karl Barth

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

- Karl Barth

“ 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. ”

- Karl Barth

“ 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 grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us. ”

- Karl Barth

“ 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. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 The Day of Jesus Christ is the Day of all days; the brilliant and visible light of this one point is the hidden invisible light of all points; to perceive the righteousness of God once and for all here is the hope of righteousness (Gal… ”

- Karl Barth

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

- Karl Barth

“ 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. ”

- Karl Barth

“ 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. ”

- Karl Barth

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

- Karl Barth

“ Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected… ”

- Karl Barth

“ Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected… ”

- Karl Barth

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

- Karl Barth

“ 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. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. ”

- Karl Barth

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

- Karl Barth

“ Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. ”

- Karl Barth

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

- Karl Barth

“ Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. ”

- Karl Barth

“ 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 together en famille they play Mozart. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ”

- Karl Barth

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

- Karl Barth

“ Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ”

- Karl Barth

“ Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. ”

- Karl Barth
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