political correctness jeopardizes more than it should the human capacity to speak the truth, - Karl Barth

Karl Barth's writings had a deep impact on the theology of the twentieth century. But his vast Church Dogmatics stands as his foundational work.
The present volume is a brief excerpt from Church Dogmatics (vol. 4, pt. 2).

God's love toward us commends itself in this, that Christ died for us while we were still weak, still sinners, still godless, still enemies. It has therefore not waited for us, but has come to meet us and gone before us.

We ourselves shall never be true to ourselves. Our human path is, as such, a path from one disloyalty to another; and it is the same with the ways of the gods of this world. They do not keep what they promise. So with them there is never any real peace and clarity. In God alone is there faithfulness, and faith is the trust that we may hold to Him, to His promise and to His guidance. To hold to God is to rely on the fact that God is there for me, and to live in this certainty. This is the promise God gives us: I am there for you.