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One Quotes by Karl Barth
- No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
- One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.
- A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological…
- On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as…
- With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short,…
- We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.
- The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book of Dogmatics. They…
- 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…
- The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
- To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It…
- 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…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle