Quotes About Atonement

God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Therefore from the storehouse of His Passion I borrow the price of my debt,

Sickness and disease are destroyed through the precious atonement of Jesus. O how we ought to honor the stripes of Jesus, for "with his stripes we are healed.

O! my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't;A brother's murder!

If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

When the Lord Jesus died, all creation and the sins committed by the creation were terminated together.

Royalty is the most wretched condition imaginable; for there is no possibility of setting one's self free from it, since how can any sovereign command sufficient resources to make restitution of property to those from whom he has taken it, or how can he make atonement in bonds to those whom he has cast into prison, or how can he offer a sufficient number of lives to die for those whom he has put to death?

As Boettner so aptly observes, for the Calvinist, the atonement "is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge that goes only half-way across." p. 41

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God, but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin but for God's wrath on it.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.

Jesus Christ suffered, to bear the sin of mankind.

We do repent not to be forgiven, but because we are forgiven.

A sin confessed, a guilt cleared by grace.

I felt the faith of being, when my sins were washed by blood of holy Lamb, Jesus Christ, holy sacrifice.

In the mind of western man, there is nearly always a tendency to overrate suffering. This tendency is inherited from Christianity and Romanticism. One has, for centuries, considered suffering to be an atonement, a purification, and a cause of uplift. Suffering may comprise such virtues but not necessarily so.

Los asesinos no volverán a entrar aquí mientras no laven sus crímenes.

YOM KIPPUR. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises. I

Yom Kippur. The day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast would mean a surer, swifter death. We fasted here the whole year round. The whole year was Yom Kippur.