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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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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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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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We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.
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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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In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
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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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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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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.
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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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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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It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
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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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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.
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Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.
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The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
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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 person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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