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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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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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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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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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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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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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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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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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