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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Karl Barth

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

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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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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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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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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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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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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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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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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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