What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous … - Karl Barth

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I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.

Karl Barth

What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.

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We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus. . . in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.

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The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

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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 is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

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Belief cannot argue with unbelief, it can only preach to it.

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The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

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