List of Karl Barth Quotes

Mozart's Music Always Sounds Unburdened, Effortless, And Light. This Is Why It Unburdens, Releases, And Liberates Us.

We Have Before Us The Fiendishness Of Business Competition And The World War, Passion And Wrongdoing, Antagonism Between Classes And Moral Depravity Within Them, Economic Tyranny Above And The Slave Spirit Below.

Mozart's Music Is Free Of All Exaggeration, Of All Sharp Breaks And Contradictions. The Sun Shines But Does Not Blind, Does Not Burn Or Consume. Heaven Arches Over The Earth, But It Does Not Weigh It Down, It Does Not Crush Or Devour It.

What Expressions We Used - In Part Taken Over And In Part Newly Invented! Above All, The Famous 'wholly Other' Breaking In Upon Us 'perpendicularly From Above,' The Not Less Famous 'infinite Qualitative Distinction' Between God And Man, The Vacuum, The Mathematical Point, And The Tangent In Which Alone They Must Meet.

Where Dogmatics Exists At All, It Exists Only With The Will To Be A Church Dogmatics, A Dogmatics Of The Ecumenical Church.

Mozart Creates Music From A Mysterious Center, And So Knows The Limits To The Right And The Left, Above And Below. He Maintains Moderation.

Whether The Angels Play Only Bach Praising God, I Am Not Quite Sure.

The Christian Church Does Not Exist In Heaven, But On Earth And In Time.

Exactly Halfway Between Exegesis And Practical Theology Stands Dogmatics.

Mozart's Music Is An Invitation To The Listener To Venture Just A Little Out Of The Sense Of His Own Subjectivity.

In Dogmatics Our Question Is: What Are We To Think And Say?

A 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.