Quote

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

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
Theologian
Labour
Joy
Without
Sulky
Morose
Labours

More quotes by Karl Barth

Image
To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
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
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
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
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
There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
Karl Barth
Image
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
Karl Barth
Image
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
Karl Barth
Image
Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
Karl Barth
Image
God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
Karl Barth
Image
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
Karl Barth
Image
He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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
Image
'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
Karl Barth
Image
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
Image
Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Karl Barth
Image
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
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