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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
Basle
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Bible
Books
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Many

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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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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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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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