150 Quotes by Karl Barth

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

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.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

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

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.

True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.