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Famous Karl Barth Quotes
“To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'”
“The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.”
“There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.”
“Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.”
“The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.”
“When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.”
“Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.”
“In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?”
“Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.”
“The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.”
“No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.”
“He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.”
“Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.”
“What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.”
“Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.”