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Men Quotes by Karl Barth
- What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
- The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto…
- True theology is an actual determination and claiming of man by the acting God.
- No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.
- Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
- What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
- Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
- All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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