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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
Theologian
University Teacher
Basle
Bible
Take
Literally
Seriously

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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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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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The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
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Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
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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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A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.
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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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Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
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