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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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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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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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This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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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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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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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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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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