When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?
- Karl Barth
More Quotes By Karl Barth
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Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which... Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves.... Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude... Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God…is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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