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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
Awakens
Liberated
Creates
Laughter
Humor
Joy
Grace
Beautiful
Radiates

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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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