Day of Atonement

Famous quotes containing the words day of, day and/or atonement:

    See, now is the acceptable time; see, now is the day of salvation!
    Bible: New Testament, 2 Corinthians 6:2.

    Listen, my children, and you shall hear
    Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
    On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
    Hardly a man is now alive
    Who remembers that famous day and year.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    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)