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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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University Teacher
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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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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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant 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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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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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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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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