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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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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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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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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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