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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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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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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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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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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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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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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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