…’joy’ in Phillippians is a defiant ‘Nevertheless!’ that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians’ anxiety…
– Karl Barth
Related Quotes:
- Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health. – Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
- Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. – Karl Barth
- If you are going to be a prophet why not say things that bring love into your life! Think about Philippians 4:8. – John M Sheehan
- I haven’t even read everything I wrote. – Karl Barth
- Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. – Karl Barth
- The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world. – Karl Barth
- Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible. – Karl Barth
- A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought. – Karl Barth
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. – Karl Barth
- God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians. – Karl Barth
- Theology must have the character of a living procession. – Karl Barth
- Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away. – Debasish Mridha
- Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi – Jody West
- A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud. – GK Chesterton
- Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.-” Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! – William Shakespeare
- Stop competing, stop judging, stop comparing, stop blaming and better you, for you. – Turcois Ominek
- I know who I am. Bloody hell, I’m getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, ‘cos if I’m not, I have no idea who I’m paying for. – Karl Pilkington
- Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem. – Nancy Rose
- Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, ???? You. – Arundhati Roy
- The world won’t end with a bang or a whimper. It’ll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl. – Darren Shan
- By the time your training is complete, you’ll come on command my defiant queen. – BA Rhea
- To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity. – Kin F Kam
- Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman. – Michelle M Pillow
- Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman. – Michelle M Pillow
- A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking. – Veronica Purcell
- He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind. – Arthur Urbane Dilley
- …-the two look at each other – one full of guilt – other full of pain – both full of unhappiness. – JK Rowling
- We love against the night, burning like stars against the darkness of bread and circuses. – David Paul Kirkpatrick
- Her heart did a backflip against her ribs. No, she told it. You do not fall for a necromancer whose ?????? sets the bed on fire. – Jasmine Silvera
- I felt the joy of knowing that in some small way I had fought back against someone who wanted to rule me against my will. I said no. – Doris Mortman
- The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia. – Paul Evdokimov
- News is only the first rough draft of history. – Alan Barth
- Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. – John Barth
- To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy. – JM Coetzee
- Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- But then what does it matter whence comes the gentle nudge that jars the soul into motion and sets it rolling, doomed never again to stop? – Vladimir Nabokov
- Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause. – Glen Cook
- He had a skull and crossbones label on him, but I drank his poison nevertheless and loved it; now I needed an antidote. – Genna Rulon
- He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz – WH Auden
- Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless. – Ray Bradbury