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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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Bible
Philosophy
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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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 God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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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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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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Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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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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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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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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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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