Swiss Theologian Quotes

Karl Barth

Heinrich Bullinger

Hans Küng

Brother Roger

Josias Simmler

Alexandre Vinet

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Alexandre Vinet

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.

The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress.

True believing Christians are sheep among wolves.... They employ neither worldly sword nor war, since with them killing is absolutely renounced.

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.

Heinrich Bullinger

Lofty mountains are most worth of deep study. For everywhere you turn, they present to every sense a multitude of objects to excite and delight the mind. They offer problems to our intellect; they amaze our souls. They remind us of the infinite variety of creation, and offer an unequaled field for the observation of the processes of nature.