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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
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
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Philosophy
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Bible

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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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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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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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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 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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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