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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
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University Teacher
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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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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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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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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The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
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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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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
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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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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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