Karl Barth Quotes

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

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.

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

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.