Karl Barth Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Karl Barth

  Littles, Venture, Subjectivity

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• Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

  Karl Barth

  Crush, Heaven, Shining

  Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

  Karl Barth

  Business, War, Passion

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• Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

  Karl Barth

  Exegesis, Theology, Practicals

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• Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

  Karl Barth

  Angel, Play, Praise

  1968 Quoted in the New York Times.

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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.

  Karl Barth

  Church

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.823, A&C Black

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• Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

  Karl Barth

  Light, Sound, Release

  Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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