Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.
Karl BarthMozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Karl BarthThe term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
Karl BarthIf I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
Karl Barth