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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.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Theologian
University Teacher
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Bible
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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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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.
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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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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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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
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As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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