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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
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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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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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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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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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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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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?
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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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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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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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