Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
Karl BarthMozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.
Karl BarthTake your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
Karl BarthOn the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as one to whom Jesus Christ is Brother and God is Father; and we have to deal with him on this assumption. If the other person knows that already, then we have to strengthen him in the knowledge. If he does no know it yet or no longer knows it, our business is to transmit this knowledge to him.
Karl Barth