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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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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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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity
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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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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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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.
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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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To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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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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