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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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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.
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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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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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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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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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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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We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
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