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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
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
Basle
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Bach
Mozart
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Angels
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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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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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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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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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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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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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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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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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