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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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University Teacher
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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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 Devil may also make use of morality.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
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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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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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The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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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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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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