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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Bach
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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 person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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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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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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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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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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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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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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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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