God Here and Now Quotes

“In this history of which we have spoken, man is rescued by grace alone by the intervention of God for him. What does this history say to us? It says: "Set your mind not on high things, but condescend to the lowly." Christian ethics repeats to itself and to others this summon to sobriety. Christian ethics is not optimistic. It sees man as he is: gone astray, condemned, and lost. It sees him as a being who can only stumble deeper and deeper into corruption, weighed down with illusions and all sorts of reflections. Christian ethics knows that man lives alone by the fact of God's waiting upon man, God's patience and forgiveness. It knows that man cannot live except by also waiting, having patience, receiving forgiveness, and in turn forgiving others.”
― Karl Barth, God Here and Now

“A ghost world of objective truths and high moral laws will not assemble the church, nor will any of those combinations of things pleasing to God and things pleasing to men, and certainly no no more will any of those dream pictures with which men glorify themselves under the name of God.”
― Karl Barth, God Here and Now