150 Quotes by Karl Barth

Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

Mozart’s music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

In the Credo the Church bows before that God Whom we did not seek and find – Who rather has sought and found us. Now.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called ‘the infinite qualitative distinction’ between time and eternity.

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

The term ‘laity’ is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.