Man can certainly flee from God. . . but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God … - Karl Barth

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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Karl Barth

Man can certainly flee from God. . . but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

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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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