Carolina QuotesThe power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Epistle to the Romans (1918; 1921)
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- 1918
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