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- When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Karl Barth. Brother, Speak, Sin.
- To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. Karl Barth. Prayer, Hands, Uprising.
- I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally. 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.
- “Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.” ― Karl Barth.
- “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” ― Karl Barth.
- “Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.” ― Karl Barth, Evangelical Theology: An Introduction.
- “Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.” ― Karl Barth.
- Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. Karl Barth.
- Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. Karl Barth.
- Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. Karl Barth.
- Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. Karl Barth.
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"The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall...
Alphabetized by author or source Barth's dedication to the sole authority and power of the Word of God was illustrated for us … while we were in Basel. Barth was engaged in a dispute over the stained glass windows in the Basel Münster. The windows had been removed during World War II for fear they would be destroyed by bombs, and Barth was resistin...
"Karl Barth's Conception of God" by Martin Luther King, Jr.(2 January 1952)- God chooses for us to be free. “The doctrine of election is the sum of the gospel because of all words that can be said or heard it is the best: that God elects man; that God is for man to the one who loves in freedom.”
- Don’t get stuck on what divides us. “…The simplest form of the dogma may be divided at once into the two assertions that Jesus Christ is the electing God and that He is also elected man.”
- God chose Jesus to teach us. “Our thesis is that God’s eternal will is the election of Jesus Christ.” — Karl Barth.
- You can't escape God's love. “[Man] can certainly flee from God (he does so), but he cannot escape Him… He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him” — Karl Barth.
Karl Barth was not only an important theologian, but also a gifted wordsmith. The following quotes are extracts from Insights, (original: Augenblicke) a collection of 94 short texts from Karl Barth, selected by Eberhard Busch, Karl Barth’s longtime assistant.
Sourced quotations by the Swiss Theologian Karl Barth (1886 — 1968) about god, man and jesus. Enjoy the best Karl Barth quotes and picture quotes!
