Quotes from Karl Barth
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
— 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
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
— Karl Barth
For 'historical' means 'subject to time' (p. 242).
— Karl Barth
In virtue of the name of Pontius Pilate being connected with Him, the life and passion of Jesus Christ is an event in the same world history in which our life also takes place.
— Karl Barth
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.
— Karl Barth
But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?
— Karl Barth
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
Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
— Karl Barth
joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...
— Karl Barth
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
— Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
— Karl Barth