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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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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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As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
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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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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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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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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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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'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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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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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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