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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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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.
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The Devil may also make use of morality.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
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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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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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