01c. 1927 ADHe has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of time - the whole context of Providence. As though in the light of this end, he heard the harmony of creation to which the shadow belongs but in which the shadow is not darkness, deficiency is not defeat, trouble cannot degenerate into tragedy and infinite melancholy is ultimately forced to claim undisputed sway...Mozart causes us to hear that even on the latter side, and therefore in its totality creation praises its master and is therefore perfect.Karl Barth / quote ↗
02c. 1927 ADIn the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.Karl Barth / quote ↗
03c. 1927 ADThis 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.Karl Barth / quote ↗
04c. 1927 ADA 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.Karl Barth / quote ↗
07c. 1927 ADOn observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.Karl Barth / quote ↗
08c. 1927 ADThou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.Karl Barth / quote ↗
09c. 1927 ADWhen theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.Karl Barth / quote ↗
11c. 1927 ADJesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.Karl Barth / quote ↗
13c. 1927 ADIt is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.Karl Barth / quote ↗
14c. 1927 ADMan can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.Karl Barth / quote ↗
