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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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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 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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There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.
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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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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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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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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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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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He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.
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To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.
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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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