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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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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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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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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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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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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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