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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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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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Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
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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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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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With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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