I Take The Bible Far

Grace Must Find Expression In Life, Otherwise It Is Not Grace.

The Angels Laugh At Old Karl. They Laugh At Him Because He Tries To Grasp The Truth About God In A Book Of Dogmatics. They Laugh At The Fact That Volume Follows Volume, And Each Is Thicker Than The Previous Ones. As They Laugh, They Say To One Another, ‘look! Here He Comes Now With His Little Pushcart Full Of Volumes Of The Dogmatics!’—and They Laugh About The Persons Who Write So Much About Karl Barth Instead Of Writing About The Things He Is Trying To Write About. Truly, The Angels Laugh.

The Best Theology Would Need No Advocates; It Would Prove Itself.

Faith Is Not An Art. Faith Is Not An Achievement. Faith Is Not A Good Work Of Which Some May Boast While Others Can Excuse Themselves With A Shrug Of The Shoulders For Not Being Capable Of It. It Is A Decisive Insight Of Faith Itself That All Of Us Are Incapable Of Faith In Ourselves, Whether We Think Of Its Preparation, Beginning, Continuation, Or Completion.

I Had To Show That The Bible Dealt With An Encounter Between God And Man. I Thought Only Of The Apartness Of God. What I Had To Learn After That Was The Togetherness Of Man And God - A Union Of Two Totally Different Kinds Of Beings.