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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting 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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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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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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Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.
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We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
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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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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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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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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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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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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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Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.
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There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
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Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.
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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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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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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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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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