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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928)
The name Jesus defines an historical occurence and marks the point where the unknown world cuts the known world . . . as Christ Jesus is the plane which lies beyond our comprehension.
The statement that the Bible is God’s Word is a confession of faith, a statement of the faith which hears God Himself speak through the biblical word of man.
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.
The Knowledge of God and the Service of God (1939)
The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved — in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved — in virtue of what God can do.
Church Dogmatics (1932)
I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God — a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
Witness to an Ancient Truth (1962)
The power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable.
The Epistle to the Romans (1918)
The known plane is God's creation, fallen out of its union with Him, and therefore the world of the flesh needing redemption, the world of men, and of time, and of things — our world.
The Epistle to the Romans (1918)
While it is beyond our comprehension that eternity should meet us in time, yet it is true because in Jesus Christ eternity has become time.
The Knowledge of God and the Service of God (1939)
Faith is never identical with "piety".
The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.
The Epistle to the Romans (1918)
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place (1994)
The reason sees the small and the larger but not the large. It sees the preliminary, but not the final, the derived but not the original, the complex but not the simple. It sees what is human but not what is divine.
The Righteousness of God (1916)
When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
Witness to an Ancient Truth (1962)
This is the voice of our conscience, telling us of the righteousness of God. And since conscience is the perfect interpreter of life, what it tells us is no question, no riddle, no problem, but a fact — the deepest, innermost, surest fact of life: God is righteous.
The Righteousness of God (1916)
We who stand in this concrete world know nothing, and are incapable of knowning anything, of that other world. The Resurrection from the dead is, however, the transformation: the establishing or declaration of that point from above, and the corresponding discerning of it below.
We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
Church Dogmatics (1932)
When the angels praise God in Heaven I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen to them.
Witness to an Ancient Truth (1962)