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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
Basle
Awakens
Liberated
Creates
Laughter
Humor
Joy
Grace
Beautiful
Radiates

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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 labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field.
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We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
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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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