Karl Barth

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

— Karl Barth

We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.

— Karl Barth

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

— Karl Barth

The Devil may also make use of morality.

— Karl Barth

Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

— Karl Barth

The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

— Karl Barth

“The Word ought to be exposed in the words”

— Karl Barth

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

— Karl Barth

“the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.”

— Karl Barth

Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.

— Karl Barth

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

— Karl Barth

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

— Karl Barth

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

— Karl Barth

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

— Karl Barth

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

— Karl Barth

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God. He Himself is the way.

— Karl Barth

The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But…

— Karl Barth

When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin…

— Karl Barth

“...The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth…

— Karl Barth

I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of…

— Karl Barth

“For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction…

— Karl Barth

“The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded…

— Karl Barth

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests…

— Karl Barth

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear,…

— Karl Barth

The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book…

— Karl Barth

All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to…

— Karl Barth

A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking…

— Karl Barth

Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we…

— Karl Barth

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous…

— Karl Barth

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim…

— Karl Barth

We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of…

— Karl Barth

“What is there within the Bible?" "It is a dangerous question. We might do better not to come too near this burning…

— Karl Barth

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

— Karl Barth

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

— Karl Barth

Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

— Karl Barth

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

— Karl Barth

Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

— Karl Barth

I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

— Karl Barth

In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

— Karl Barth

Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

— Karl Barth