Karl Barth Christian Quotations

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.

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

Christian worship is the most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life.

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

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