Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
Karl Barth

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

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Karl Barth

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Karl Barth

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
Karl Barth

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

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth