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Quotes from The Word of God and the Word of Man — Karl Barth

1886–1968 Switzerland

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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)

There is no way from us to God — not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way — even of this way — would not be God.

The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928)

Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.

The Word of God and the Word of Man (1928)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karl Barth (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.