Quote

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Karl Barth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
Basle
Little
Argument
Side
Sides
Littles
Persons
Person

More quotes by Karl Barth

Image
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
Karl Barth
Image
What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
Karl Barth
Image
A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
Karl Barth
Image
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
Karl Barth
Image
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
Image
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
Karl Barth
Image
As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
Karl Barth
Image
I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
Karl Barth
Image
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
Karl Barth
Image
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Karl Barth
Image
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
Image
The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
Karl Barth
Image
Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
Karl Barth
Image
Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
Karl Barth
Image
Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
Karl Barth
Image
The Devil may also make use of morality.
Karl Barth
Image
The relation of this God with this man the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
Karl Barth
Image
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
Karl Barth
Image
God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
Karl Barth
Image
Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
Karl Barth