Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

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 resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.