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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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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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Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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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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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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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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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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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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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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