150 Quotes by Karl Barth

All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.