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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
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The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
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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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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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True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
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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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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
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