Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl BarthLet us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
Karl BarthThe gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.
Karl BarthWhen we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
Karl BarthThe nativity mystery โconceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Maryโ, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his โclimbing down of Godโ is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.
Karl Barth