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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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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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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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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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