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

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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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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