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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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Universalism
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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
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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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Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
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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 creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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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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When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
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