150 Quotes by Karl Barth

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.

Faith in God’s revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

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.

I haven’t even read everything I wrote.

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.

Religion possesses no solution of the problem of life; rather it makes of the problem a wholly insoluble enigma. Religion neither discovers the problem nor solves it: what it does is to disclose the truth that it cannot be solved.

I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all.

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

God has not the slightest need for our proofs.