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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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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 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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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
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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 God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
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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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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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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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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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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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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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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
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