For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.
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Citations by Karl Barth
The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.
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We know that God is He whom we do not know, and that our ignorance is precisely the problem and the source of our knowledge. The Epistle to the Romans is a revelation of the unknown God; God chooses to come to man, not man to God. Even after the revelation man cannot know God, for he is ever the unknown God. In manifesting himself to man he is farther away than before.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Piety is the possibility of the removal of the last traces of a firm foundation upon which we can erect a system of thought.
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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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Joy is the rarest and most infrequent thing in the world. We already have enough fanatical seriousness, enthusiasm, and humorless zeal in the world. But joy? This shows us that the perception of the living God is rare. When we have found God our Saviour – or when he has found us – we will rejoice in him.
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He is the One who stands above us and also above our highest and deepest feelings, strivings, intuitions, above the products, even the most sublime, of the human spirit. God in the highest means first of all... He who is in no way established in us, in no way corresponds to a human disposition and possibility, but who is in every sense established simply in Himself and is real in that way; and who is manifest and made manifest to us men, not because of our seeking and finding, feeling and thinking, but again and again, only through Himself. It is this God in the highest who has turned as such to man, given Himself to man, made Himself knowable to him... God in the highest, in the sense of the Christian Confession, means He who from on high has condescended to us, has come to us, has become ours.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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