Karl Barth Quotes
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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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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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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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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There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
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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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When the angels praise God in Heaven I am sure they play Bach. However, en famille they play Mozart, and then God the Lord is especially delighted to listen to them.
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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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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.
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In conclusion, a word about your tired expression that there is a difference between theory and praxis. ... Thereby you want to say that praxis should be an unencumbered as possible by theory. Coming from you, this wish is quite intelligible. What you mean by praxis is private profit; what I mean by theory is justice.
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It is evident that the relation to God with which the Bible is concerned does not have its source in the purple depths of the subconscious, and cannot be identical with what the deep-sea psychical research of our day describes in the narrower or broader sense as libido fulfilment.
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Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
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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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Eternity is here (in the stable at Bethlehem and on the cross of Calvary) in time.
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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.