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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 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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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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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