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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
Pastor
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University Teacher
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Men
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
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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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When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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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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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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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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