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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 loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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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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