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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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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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Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
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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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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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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 have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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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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Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
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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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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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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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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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Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
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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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