"Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone."
-Karl Barth
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"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.“
-Karl Barth
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"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
-Karl Barth
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"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."
-Karl Barth
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"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
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"Faith is never identical with piety."
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"You do have to change things as warfare changes."
-Charles Schumer
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"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."
-Tom Hanks
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"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."
-Jonathan Sacks
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"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."
-Nick Clegg
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"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."
-Jonathan Sacks
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