Karl Barth Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...”
-- Karl BarthSource : "A Karl Barth Reader".
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“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
-- Karl BarthSource : "Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place". Book by Bob Stromberg, 1994.
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“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.”
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“When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.”
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“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 thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.”
-- Karl BarthSource : Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation”, p.220, A&C Black
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“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 laugh at the fact that volume follows volume, and each is thicker than the previous ones. As they laugh, they say to one another, ‘Look! Here he comes now with his little pushcart full of volumes of the Dogmatics!’—and they laugh about the persons who write so much about Karl Barth instead of writing about the things he is trying to write about. Truly, the angels laugh.”
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“I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.”
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“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
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“Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.”
-- Karl BarthSource : "An Introduction to Protestant Theology". Book by Helmut Gollwitzer, 1982.
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“It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.”
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“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”
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“No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.”
-- Karl BarthSource : Karl Barth (1967). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of God. 2 pts”
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“The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.”
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“Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.”
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“The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.”
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“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 an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?”
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“True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.”
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“He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.”
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“Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.”
-- Karl Barth#Possibility Quotes #Confidence In God Quotes #Removal Quotes
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“The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.”
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“In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.”
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“Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.”
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“What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.”
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“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.”
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“Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.”
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“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 God Himself undertakes on our behalf.”
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“I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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