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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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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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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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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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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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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
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Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
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