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Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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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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