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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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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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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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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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Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
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The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
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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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