Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Karl BarthMay 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian who is often regarded as the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. Pope Pius XII called him the most important Christian theologian since St. Thomas Aquinas. His influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture, leading him to be featured on the cover of Time on April 20, 1962...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionReligious Author
Date of Birth10 May 1886
CountrySwitzerland
Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'
Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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.
I haven't even read everything I wrote.
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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.