Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before - Karl Barth

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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

Karl Barth

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

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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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