Quotes by Karl Barth

“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”

“Mozarts music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.”

“Faith in Gods 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.”

“Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.”

“Jews have Gods 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.”

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

“Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life”

“Laughter is the way to true love.”

“In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians”

“The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself”

“Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.”

“Faith is never identical with piety.”

“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.”

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

I havent even read everything I wrote.

...joy in Phillippians is a defiant Nevertheless! that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians anxiety...

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.