No one can be saved – in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved – in virtue of what God can do.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

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

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God – which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead – lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

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

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Karl Barth (Theologian, 1886 – 1968)