Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Karl Rahner (Theologian, 1904 – 1984)

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

Karl Rahner (Theologian, 1904 – 1984)

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.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God–this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

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

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

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

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

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.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)