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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Karl Barth

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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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Theology
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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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As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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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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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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