Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
Karl BarthThe 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, โLook! Here he comes now with his little pushcart full of volumes of the Dogmatics!โโand 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.
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