“This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.”

—  Karl Barth

Source: The Humanity of God

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Swiss Protestant theologian 1886–1968

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