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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
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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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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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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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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.
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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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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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