Carolina QuotesAbove all, words must be recognized as symbolic pointers to truth, not objective containers of truth.
John Shelby Spong Carolinian
Source
p. 37
- work
- Resurrection: Myth or Reality? (1994)
- year
- 1994
- locator
- p. 37
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