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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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Theologian
University Teacher
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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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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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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 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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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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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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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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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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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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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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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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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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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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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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