Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own … - Karl Barth

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Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all the worse. Should one kill the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.

Karl Barth

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 suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

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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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