Karl Barth Citations
Karl Barth: Citations en anglais
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.”
As quoted in Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place (1994) by Bob Stromberg, p. 69.
Source: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 45
Source: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 36
Source: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 19
On his preaching to prisoners in the Basel jail.
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)
Statement after the start of World War II
"Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)
“There is no way from us to God — not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa.”
The god who stood at the end of some human way — even of this way — would not be God.
The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928)
This is the voice of our conscience, telling us of the righteousness of God. And since conscience is the perfect interpreter of life, what it tells us is no question, no riddle, no problem, but a fact — the deepest, innermost, surest fact of life: God is righteous. Our only question is what attitude toward the fact we ought to take.
We shall hardly approach the fact with our critical reason. The reason sees the small and the larger but not the large. It sees the preliminary, but not the final, the derived but not the original, the complex but not the simple. It sees what is human but not what is divine.
We shall hardly be taught this fact by men.
"The Righteousness of God" (1916) in The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928) as translated by Douglas Horton; this passage begins with a quote of Isaiah 40:3-5; often quoted alone has been the phrase following it: "Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life."
