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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.

— Karl Barth The Epistle to the Romans (1918)

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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)

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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

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