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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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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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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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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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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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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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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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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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