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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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Theologian
University Teacher
Basle
Angels
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Mozart
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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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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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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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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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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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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Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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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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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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 dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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 an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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