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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Citations by Karl Barth
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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The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
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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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The revelation in Jesus, just because it is the revelation of the righteousness of God is at the same time the strongest conceivable veiling and unknowableness of God. In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.
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No one can come back and start over, but everybody can move forward and decide the ending.
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Posted by: Marco Fernando Righi
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Posted by: Elisabetta
The saving of anyone is something which is not in the power of man, but only of God. No one can be saved — in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved — in virtue of what God can do. The divine claim takes the form that it puts both the obedient and the disobedient together and compels them to realise this, to recognise their common status in face of the commanding God.
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