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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
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Church
Dogmatics
Proclamation
Testing
Doctrine

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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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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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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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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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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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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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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 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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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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