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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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University Teacher
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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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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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The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
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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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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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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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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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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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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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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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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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