Quotes from Karl Barth
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
- Karl Barth
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
- Karl Barth
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
- Karl Barth
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
- Karl Barth
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
- Karl Barth
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
- Karl Barth
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
- Karl Barth
Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
- 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
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
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.
- Karl Barth
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
- Karl Barth