Carolina QuotesGrace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
Source
As quoted in An Introduction to Protestant Theology (1982) by Helmut Gollwitzer, p. 174.
- year
- 1982
- locator
- p. 174
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