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Karl Barth Inspirational Quotes (62)

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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
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Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
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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.
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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
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