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Visser ’t Hooft also had unorthodox requests of his young volunteer aide, like calling upon Audrey to deliver the local Resistance newspaper, Oranjekrant. With paper pulp in extremely short supply, the Oranjekrant packed its volume of
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Hofft was a major figure in world Lutheranism. Audrey was in the Reformed tradition.
“2When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;”
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
“3For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.”
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
“Visser ’t Hooft also had unorthodox requests of his young volunteer aide, like calling upon Audrey to deliver the local Resistance newspaper, Oranjekrant. With paper pulp in extremely short supply, the Oranjekrant packed its volume of critical information into a surface area about the size of half a paper napkin. Audrey described having “to step in and deliver our tiny underground newspaper. I stuffed them in my woolen socks in my wooden shoes, got on my bike and delivered them.”
― Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
― Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
“16Oppressing the poor in order to enrich oneself, and giving to the rich, will lead only to loss.”
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
― The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version
“After hearing a shipboard sermon, a dose of the old-time religion, he trained his critical faculties on Christianity and mocked the notion of Christ sacrificing His life for humanity. “If Christ was God, then the crucifixion is without dignity. It is merely ridiculous, for to endure several hours’ pain is nothing heroic in God, in any case.”[106] He pointed out that “every girl takes a risk superior to that when she marries & subjects herself to the probable pains of childbirth indefinitely repeated.”[107]”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
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