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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
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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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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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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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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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