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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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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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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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The relation of this God with this man the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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 always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
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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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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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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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Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
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As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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