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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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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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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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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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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
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