Quotes About Atonement

the rabbi comes in to read the Psalms with you and hear you say the Vidui, that terrible confession in which you admit your responsibility not only for the sins you have committed, whether by word, deed, or thought, but also for those you may have caused others to commit.

His chief uneasiness was that he could not be truly penitent about it.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

Meu Deus, eu me arrependo, perdoai-me.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

Thus when Isaiah in chapter fifty-three says how Christ should die for us and bear our sins, he has written the pure gospel. And I assure you, if a person fails to grasp this understanding of the gospel, he will never be able to be illuminated in the Scripture nor will he receive the right foundation.

He died that he might heal our souls with a plaster of his own blood, and by that death save us, which we were the procurers of ourselves, by our own sins.

God has to punish sinners, because God is holy, but Jesus has paid the price for our sin, and so we can have eternal life. However true or untrue that is technically or theologically, what it can do is subtly teach people that Jesus rescues us from God.

For the lead player, a psalm; for David, a song. 1 To You silence is praise, God, in Zion, 2 and to You a vow will be paid. O, Listener to prayer, 3 unto You all flesh shall come. My deeds of mischief are too much for me. 4 Our crimes but You atone.

No memory of having starred Atones for later disregard Or keeps the end from being hard. Better to go down dignified With boughten friendship at your side Than none at all. Provide, provide!

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir Jan, when guilt leads to good.

Because it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin!

Come. There is a way to be good again, Rahim Khan had said on the phone just before hanging up. Said it in passing, almost as an afterthought.

A veces pienso que todo lo que hizo, dar de comer a los pobres de la calle, construir el orfanato, dejar dinero a los amigos necesitados..., era su forma de redimirse. Y en eso, creo, consiste la auténtica redención, Amir jan: en el sentimiento de culpa que desemboca en la bondad.

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

maybe, just maybe, I would finally be pardoned for killing my mother.

There is a way to be good again

If not absolution, I yelled, give me oblivion.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.