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• We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.

  Karl Barth

  Hands, Newspapers

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• Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth.

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  Gratitude, Heaven, Grace

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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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  Forgiveness, Christian, Looks

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• When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

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  Men, Sin, Committed

  Karl Barth (1995). “Gespräche, 1959-1962”, Tvz - Theologischer Verlag Zurich

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• Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

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  Light, Sin

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• He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

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  Jesus, Christ, Masters

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• What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

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  Children, Men, Children Of Men

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

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• To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'

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  Flesh, Revelations

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God I.1 § 1-7”, p.117, A&C Black

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• Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

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  Idols, Doubt, World

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• The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Men, Theme

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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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  Lying, Arise

  "The Word of God and the Word of Man". Book by Karl Barth, 1928.

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• God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

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  Angel

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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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  Angel, Play, Together

  Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

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  Giving, Inability, Recognition

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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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  Facts, Motive, Our Lives

  Karl Barth (1971). “Fragments grave and gay”, Not Avail

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• I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.

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  Men, Two, Encounters

  "Witness to an Ancient Truth". TIME Magazine, April 20, 1962.

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• In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

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  Jesus, Height, Depth

  Karl Barth (2010). “Church Dogmatics Study Edition 21: The Doctrine of Reconciliation IV.1 § 57-59”, p.130, A&C Black

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• The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

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  Jesus, Mean, Climbing

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• Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

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  Humanity, Form

  1948 Kirchliche Dogmatik vol.3, pt.2 (translated by H Knight as Church Dogmatics, 1960).

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• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

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  Life, Perfect, Interpreter

  "The Word of God and the Word of Man". Book by Karl Barth, translated by Douglas Horton, 1928.

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• We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Son, Essence

  Karl Barth (2003). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God”, p.661, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  God, Challenging The Status Quo, Revelations

  "An Almanac of the Christian Church". Book by William D. Blake, 1987.

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• Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

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  Piety, Identical

  "The Beginnings of Dialectic Theology". Book edited by James McConkey Robinson, Volume 1, 1968.

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• The theologian who labours without joy is not a theologian at all.

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  Joy, Sulky, Theologian

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• Exegesis, exegesis, and yet more exegesis!

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  Exegesis

  Karl Barth (2007). “A Shorter Commentary on Romans”, p.7, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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