Carolina QuotesJoy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
Source
As quoted in Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane : Extraordinary Stories About An Ordinary Place (1994) by Bob Stromberg, p. 69.
- year
- 1994
- locator
- p. 69
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“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” Karl Barth. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-897D579AB9. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/897d579ab9
More from Karl Barth
What expressions we used – in part taken over and in part newly invented! — above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us ‘perpendicularly from above,’ the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
God, the pure limit and pure beginning of all that we are, have, and do, standing over in infinite qualitative difference to man and all that is human, nowhere and never identical with that which we call God, experience, surmise, and pray to as God, the unconditioned Halt as opposed to all human rest, the Yes in our No and the No in our Yes, the first and last and as such unknown, but nowhere and never a magnitude amongst others in the medium known to us, God the Lord, the Creator and Redeemer . . . that is the living God.
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.