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From Quotes by Karl Barth
- The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord…
- The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
- Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which…
- 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…
- Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
- 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…
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