Quotes by Karl Barth

• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
• Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
• No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
• It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
• Faith is never identical with piety.
• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.