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• The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

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  Jesus, Boulders, Resurrection

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• Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

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  Jesus, Scripture, Christ

  1934 The Barmen Declaration adopted by the Confessing Church in Germany (translated by D S Bax, 1984).

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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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  Christian, Hard Times, Grace

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• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "The Harper Book of Quotations". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

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• Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.

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  Lying, Men, Doe

  Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God”, p.317, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

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  Mark, Question Mark

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.35, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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  Evil Within, Sin, Evil Things

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• I don’t believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

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  Jesus, Believe, Christ

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• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

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  Life, Expression, Grace

  "An Introduction to Protestant Theology". Book by Helmut Gollwitzer, 1982.

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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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  Change, God, Hate

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 11: The Doctrine of God II.2 § 34-35”, p.122, A&C Black

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• The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

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  Christian, Vocabulary, Conversation

  Karl Barth (1986). “A Karl Barth Reader”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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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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  Gratitude, Jesus, Men

  Karl Barth (1960). “The Humanity of God”, p.47, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

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  Belief, Arguing, Unbelief

  "A weapon for liberation, and oppression" by Tim Skellett, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

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  Needs, Proof, Theology

  "Quotations from the Wayside". Book by Brenda Wong, 1998.

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• The Devil may also make use of morality.

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  Devil, Use, May

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• This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.

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  Jesus, Kindness, Limits

  Karl Barth (1960). “The Humanity of God”, p.62, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

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  Men, Be Good

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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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  Christian, Breathing, Needs

  Karl Barth (2002). “Prayer”, p.15, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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  Religion, Possibility, Confidence In God

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

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  Impossibility

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.381, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Order, Evil

  Karl Barth (1941). “This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)”

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• Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.

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  Truth, Lying, Men

  Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part2: The Election of God; The Command of God”, p.317, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Christian, House, Tree

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• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

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  Jesus, Church, Christ

  Karl Barth (1981). “Letters, 1961-1968”

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• The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book of Dogmatics. They laugh at the fact that volume follows volume, and each is thicker than the previous ones. As they laugh, they say to one another, ‘Look! Here he comes now with his little pushcart full of volumes of the Dogmatics!’—and they laugh about the persons who write so much about Karl Barth instead of writing about the things he is trying to write about. Truly, the angels laugh.

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  Book, Angel, Writing

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