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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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