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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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University Teacher
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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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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 theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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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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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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