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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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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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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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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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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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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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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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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Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
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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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