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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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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
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Beautiful
Radiates
Awakens
Liberated
Creates
Laughter
Humor
Joy
Grace

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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
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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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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
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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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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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