Carolina QuotesWhen I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
Karl Barth Connected to the Carolinas
Source
On his preaching to prisoners in the Basel jail.
- work
- "Witness to an Ancient Truth" (1962)
- year
- 1962
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