Quotes from Karl Barth
Holy Communion is offered to all, as surely as the living Jesus Christ is for all, as surely as all of us are not divided in him, but belong together as brothers and sisters, all of us poor sinners, all of us rich through his mercy. Amen.
- Karl Barth
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
- Karl Barth
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
- Karl Barth
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
- Karl Barth
What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
- Karl Barth
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
- 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 person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
- Karl Barth
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
- Karl Barth
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
- Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
- Karl Barth