Karl Barth Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

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

  Karl Barth

  Forgiveness, Christian, Looks

• When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

  Karl Barth

  Brother, Speak, Sin

• Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

  Karl Barth

  Evil Within, Sin, Evil Things

• All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.

  Karl Barth

  Men, Thinking, Judging

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation”, p.220, A&C Black

• Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.

  Karl Barth

  Sin, Ingratitude

  Karl Barth (2004). “The Doctrine of Reconciliation: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reco”, p.49, A&C Black

• Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

  Karl Barth

  Light, Sin

• Abortion is 'the great modern sin.

  Karl Barth

  Christian, Abortion, Sin

• When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

  Karl Barth

  Men, Sin, Committed

  Karl Barth (1995). “Gespräche, 1959-1962”, Tvz - Theologischer Verlag Zurich

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