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Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

Littles, Venture, Subjectivity

Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

Karl Barth

Crush, Heaven, Shining

Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.

Karl Barth

Exegesis, Theology, Practicals

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

Karl Barth

Angel, Play, Praise

1968 Quoted in the New York Times.

Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.

Karl Barth

Church

Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.823, A&C Black

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

Karl Barth

Business, War, Passion