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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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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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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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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 have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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