Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
More Quotes from Karl Barth:
Karl Barth, the 20th-century theologian who pounded home the theme of God's sovereignty, saw no contradiction at all in a God who chooses to let prayers affect him. He is not deaf, he listens more than that, he acts. He does not act in the same way whether we pray or not. Prayer exerts an influence upon God's action, even upon his existence. That is what the word 'answer' means. ... The fact that God yields to man's petitions, changing his intentions in response to man's prayer, is not a sign of weakness. He himself, in the glory of his majesty and power, has so willed it.Karl Barth
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
Karl Barth
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.
Karl Barth
Man can certainly keep on lying. . . but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel. . . but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.
Karl Barth
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Karl Barth
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