Karl Barth Quotes

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

God doesn't make things difficult for us. Do you want to know what the truth is? Look in the Bible, and you'll see that Jesus describes Himself not only as the truth, but the way and the life as well.

I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His love for each of us if we strive to be worthy of that love, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.

What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.

Mark this, you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by Women; What had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Mankind, if they had not cause to believe the Message that the Lord Jesus sent by these Women

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

I believe Jesus Christ is God. I believe He loves every single human being that has ever lived, no matter what they have done, even if they don't believe in Him.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.