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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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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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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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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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