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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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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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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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