Karl Barth Quotes

We definitely showed a month off, but I should have had us ready.

All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.

No one can be saved–in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved–in virtue of what God can do.

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

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.

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.

Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

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

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