Community, State and Church Quotes

“How can a reformation of the whole people be brought about if it is common knowledge that the Church itself is bent only on self-preservation and restoration--or not even that?”
― Karl Barth, Community, State and Church: Three Essays

“In the political sphere the Church will always and in all circumstances be interested primarily in human beings and not in some abstract cause or other, whether it be anonymous capital or the state as such (the functioning of its departments!) or the honour of the nation or the progress of civilisation or culture or the idea, however conceived, of the historical development of the human race.”
― Karl Barth, Community, State and Church