Karl Barth Quotes

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'

I'm no saint.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God’s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings.

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.