We Must Read The Bible Through The

We Have Before Us The Fiendishness Of Business Competition And The World War, Passion And Wrongdoing, Antagonism Between Classes And Moral Depravity Within Them, Economic Tyranny Above And The Slave Spirit Below.

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 Statement That 'god Is Dead' Comes From Nietzsche And Has Recently Been Trumpeted Abroad By Some German And American Theologians. But The Good Lord Has Not Died Of This; He Who Dwells In The Heaven Laughs At Them.

Faith Is Not An Art. Faith Is Not An Achievement. Faith Is Not A Good Work Of Which Some May Boast While Others Can Excuse Themselves With A Shrug Of The Shoulders For Not Being Capable Of It. It Is A Decisive Insight Of Faith Itself That All Of Us Are Incapable Of Faith In Ourselves, Whether We Think Of Its Preparation, Beginning, Continuation, Or Completion.

Whether The Angels Play Only Bach Praising God, I Am Not Quite Sure.