Carolina QuotesThe word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 149
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 149
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