Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Karl Barth
- To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
- Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
- The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
- Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
- 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.
- The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.
- Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.
- The Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.
- The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
- The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
Karl Barth (1886-1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century. He is best known for his role in developing a new approach to theology known as “dialectical theology,” which emphasized the paradoxical nature of Christian beliefs and the importance of God’s revelation in Scripture.
Barth was born in Basel, Switzerland and studied theology at the University of Bern and the University of Berlin. He was heavily influenced by the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, but eventually came to reject Schleiermacher’s emphasis on human experience as the foundation of theology.
In 1919, Barth published his most famous work, “The Epistle to the Romans,” which was a commentary on the New Testament book of Romans. In this work, Barth argued that the Bible should be understood as the self-revelation of God rather than a human attempt to understand God.
Throughout his career, Barth continued to emphasize the importance of God’s revelation in Scripture and the need for Christians to rely on God’s grace rather than their own efforts to achieve salvation. He also spoke out against Nazi ideology during World War II and was involved in the Confessing Church, a movement of German Christians who opposed the Nazi regime.
Barth’s influence on Christian theology has been significant, and his ideas continue to be studied and debated by scholars today.
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