...The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth than is the sophistry with which men attempt to justify him....

Karl Barth


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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth


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To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Karl Barth


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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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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


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For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

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

Karl Barth

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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

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This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.

Karl Barth

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