Quote

Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.

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
Heaven
Evoke
Faith
Thunder
Voice
Echoes
Earth
Follows
Together
Lightning
Like
Belong
Gratitude
Evokes
Grace
Echo

More quotes by Karl Barth

Image
Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
Karl Barth
Image
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
Karl Barth
Image
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
Karl Barth
Image
I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
Karl Barth
Image
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
Karl Barth
Image
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
Karl Barth
Image
Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
Karl Barth
Image
There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
Karl Barth
Image
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
Karl Barth
Image
The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
Karl Barth
Image
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
Karl Barth
Image
Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
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
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
Karl Barth
Image
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
Image
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
Karl Barth
Image
I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
Karl Barth
Image
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
Karl Barth