Quote

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

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
Exist
Heaven
Church
Christian
Doe
Earth
Time

More quotes by Karl Barth

Image
God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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 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
The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Karl Barth
Image
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
Karl Barth
Image
A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
Karl Barth
Image
The Devil may also make use of morality.
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
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
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
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
True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
Karl Barth
Image
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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
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
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
Karl Barth