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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
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A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
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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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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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