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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Mozart
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
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To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
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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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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
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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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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
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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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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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