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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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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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We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
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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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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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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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The relation of this God with this man the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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