Karl Barth Quotes
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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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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'joy' in Phillippians is a defiant 'Nevertheless!' that Paul sets like a full stop against the Philippians' anxiety.
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Dogmatics is the testing of Church doctrine and proclamation.
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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
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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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What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.
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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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Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
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Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
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Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He comes forward to MAN on behalf of GOD calling for and awakening faith, love and hope, and to GOD on behalf of MAN, representing man, making satisfaction and interceding. Thus He attests and guarantees to God's free GRACE and at the same time attests and guarantees to God man's free GRATITUDE.
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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
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To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'
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No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
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I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.
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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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In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
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When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
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Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
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It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
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Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which God Himself undertakes on our behalf.
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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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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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To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
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What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
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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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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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I take the Bible far too seriously to take it literally.
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