A Being Is Free Only When It

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.

Our Position Is Such That We Can Be Rescued From Eternal Death And Translated Into Life Only By Total And Unceasing Substitution, The Substitution Which God Himself Undertakes On Our Behalf.

All Sin Has Its Being And Origin In The Fact That Man Wants To Be His Own Judge. And In Wanting To Be That, And Thinking And Acting Accordingly, He And His Whole World Is In Conflict With God. It Is An Unreconciled World, And Therefore A Suffering World, A World Given Up To Destruction.

The 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, ‘look! Here He Comes Now With His Little Pushcart Full Of Volumes Of The Dogmatics!’—and 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.

The Spirit Bears Witness. Ecstasy And Enlightenment, Inspiration And Intuition Are Not Necessary. Happy Is The Man Who Is Worthy Of These; But Woe Unto Us If We Wait For Such Experiences; Woe Unto Us If We Do Not Perceive That These Things Are Of Secondary Importance.