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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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The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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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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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.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.
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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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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 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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I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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