Famous quotes containing the words day of, day and/or atonement:
“Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 11:4.
“Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.”
—Clive James (b. 1939)