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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

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 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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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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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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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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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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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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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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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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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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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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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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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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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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