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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

— Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.

Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice (1911)

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

An Almanac of the Christian Church (1987)

The relation between us and God, between this world and His world presses for recognition, but the line of intersection is not self-evident.

The Epistle to the Romans (1918)

Men have never been good, they are not good, they never will be good.

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.

Church Dogmatics (1932)

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Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally brings as much pain as pleasure.

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