Quotes from Karl Barth
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
- Karl Barth
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
- Karl Barth
Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
- Karl Barth
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
- Karl Barth
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
- Karl Barth
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
- Karl Barth
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
- Karl Barth
The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
- Karl Barth
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
- 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
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.
- Karl Barth
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.
- Karl Barth