A free theologian works in communication with other theologians... He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes. Karl Barth
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  1. The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. - Unknown

  2. We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. - Dorothy Day

  3. Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl

  4. The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers..of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few,... - Allan Bloom

  5. A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind. - Anthony T. Hincks

More Quotes By Karl Barth
  1. The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary!...

  2. I haven't even read everything I wrote.

  3. ...'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless! ' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety...

  4. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  5. Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

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