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Karl Barth Quotes | Quotes said by Karl Barth

  • Karl Barth Quote #1

    ...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...


  • Karl Barth Quote #2

    A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

  • Karl Barth Quote #3

    A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

  • Karl Barth Quote #4

    Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the author challenges that the theologian is not to correct the notebooks of the biblical writers like some high school teacher. Instead, our theology is always subject to what THEY say, as we willingly submit our notebooks for their approval.

  • Karl Barth Quote #5

    Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

  • Karl Barth Quote #6

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

  • Karl Barth Quote #7

    Faith is never identical with piety.

  • Karl Barth Quote #8

    God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

  • Karl Barth Quote #9

    God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei in the world. God wants light, not darkness. He wants cosmos, not chaos. He wants peace, not disorder. He wants man to administer and to receive justice rather than to inflict and to suffer injustice. He wants man to live according to the Spirit rather than according to the flesh. He wants man bound and pledged to Him rather than to any other authority. He wants man to live and not to die. Because He wills these things God is Lord, Shepherd, and Redeemer of man, who in His holiness and mercy meets His creature; who judges and forgives, rejects and receives, condemns and saves.

  • Karl Barth Quote #10

    God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and exhibits itself in that superiority and subordination is manifestly also God's capacity to bend downwards, to attach Himself to another and this other to Himself, to be together with him. This takes place in that irreversible sequence, but in it is completely real. In that sequence there arises and continues in Jesus Christ the highest communion of God with man. God's deity is thus no prison in which He can exist only in and for Himself. It is rather His freedom to be in and for Himself but also with and for us, to assert but also to sacrifice Himself, to be wholly exalted but also completely humble, not only almighty but also almighty mercy, not only Lord but also servant, not only judge but also Himself the judged, not only man's eternal king but also his brother in time. And all that without in the slightest forfeiting His deity! All that, rather, in the highest proof and proclamation of His deity! He who DOES and manifestly CAN do all that, He and no other is the living God.

  • Karl Barth Quote #11

    He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of time - the whole context of Providence. As though in the light of this end, he heard the harmony of creation to which the shadow belongs but in which the shadow is not darkness, deficiency is not defeat, trouble cannot degenerate into tragedy and infinite melancholy is ultimately forced to claim undisputed sway...Mozart causes us to hear that even on the latter side, and therefore in its totality creation praises its master and is therefore perfect.

  • Karl Barth Quote #12

    He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR him, and that apart from or even counter to what man deserves. He wants in fact to be man's partner, his almighty and compassionate Saviour. He chooses to give man the benefit of His power, which encompasses not only the high and the distant but also the deep and the near, in order to maintain communion with him in the realm guaranteed by His deity. He determines to love him, to be his God, his Lord, his compassionate Preserver and Saviour to eternal life, and to desire his praise and service.

  • Karl Barth Quote #13

    heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of “balance” or “indifference” – it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present

  • Karl Barth Quote #14

    I haven't even read everything I wrote.

  • Karl Barth Quote #15

    In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lord who is before him, above him, after him, and thence also with him in history, the locus of man's existence. Despite man's insignificance, God is with him as his Creator who intended and made mankind to be very good. Despite man's sin, God is with him, the One who was in Jesus Christ reconciling the world, drawing man unto Himself in merciful judgment. Man's evil past is not merely crossed out because of its irrelevancy. Rather, it is in the good care of God. Despite man's life in the flesh, corrupt and ephemeral, God is with him. The victor in Christ is here and now present through His Spirit, man's strength, companion, and comfort. Despite man's death God is with him, meeting him as redeemer and perfecter at the threshold of the future to show him the totality of existence in the true light in which the eyes of God beheld it from the beginning and will behold it evermore. In what He is for man and does for man, God ushers in the history leading to the ultimate salvation of man.

  • Karl Barth Quote #16

    In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN'S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD'S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.

  • Karl Barth Quote #17

    In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

  • Karl Barth Quote #18

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

  • Karl Barth Quote #19

    It is undoubtedly the case (and considerations advanced in the first sub-section have prepared us for this conclusion) that the election does in some sense denote the basis of all the relationships between God and man, between God in His very earliest movement towards man and man in his very earliest determination by this divine movement. it is in the decision in favour of this movement, in God’s self-determination and the resultant determination of man, in the basic relationship which is enclosed and fulfilled within Himself, that God is who He is.

  • Karl Barth Quote #20

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

  • Karl Barth Quote #21

    Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  • Karl Barth Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

    No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

  • Karl Barth Quote #25

    On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

  • Karl Barth Quote #26

    On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.

  • Karl Barth Quote #27

    Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

  • Karl Barth Quote #28

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

  • Karl Barth Quote #29

    Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

  • Karl Barth Quote #30

    The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.

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