No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
Karl BarthThe term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
Karl BarthWhen we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
Karl BarthFaith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Karl BarthFaith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.
Karl Barth