Barth: confidence in God alone

Friday, June 11, 2021
    Feast of Barnabas the Apostle
Meditation:
Have no fear of sudden disaster
    or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
for the LORD will be your confidence
    and will keep your foot from being snared.
    —Proverbs 3:25-26 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
    ... Karl Barth (1886-1968), The Epistle to the Romans, translated from the 6th edition by Edwyn C. Hoskyns, London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1933, 6th ed., Oxford University Press US, 1968, p. 88 (see the book)
    See also Prov. 3:25-26; Ps. 31:11-14; 46:1-3; Prov. 3:5-6; Rom. 3:19; Heb. 4:16
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You have shown me the foolishness of trusting anything apart from You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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