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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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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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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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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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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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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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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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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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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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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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