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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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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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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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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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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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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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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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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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