Quotes About Atonement

Then I had the comforting idea that my first thought wasn't as painful as it sounded. However frightening it may be to realize that all of us have sinned, however frightening it may be to contemplate a just God, surely it is infinitely more frightening to contemplate an unjust God. A basic principle of Latter-day Saint doctrine is that in order to go forward, we have to know that God is just.

God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.

We are not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

I'm not your penance, Grayson Hawthorne.

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them.

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

He was a sin-eater, someone who cleaned up the sins of others, allowed the government to function without the onus of facing what they'd done.

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

They learned that the Atonement already operated on our behalf in our first estate, allowing each and every one of our Heavenly Father's children to be born into mortality innocent—with a clean slate, as it were.

Rice would carry that burden for saving lost souls for the rest of his life, and it was driven by genuinely heartfelt compassion based on a powerful rationale: if sinners were going to burn in the literal flames of a materially real eternal fire unless they accepted the atoning sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, then any sensible, empathetic, and responsible person would devote all of his life to saving non-Christians from their God-ordained fate.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

Turk had once killed a man, and he had built a life on the foundation of that guilt.

So I tried to make what amends I could for being what I was...

any sinner can find redemption if the yield of his sin is spectacular enough. Our

You see the difficulty of believing in a divine force that determines all events? Where is the element of choice that makes suffering meaningful? To force you into a sin, and then to require you to endure defeat as atonement, seems to me an empty exercise.

If you're looking for forgiveness, pray. God may forgive you; I won't.

L'hai uccisa tu, Peter, e più di così non puoi vendicarti. Una volta che li hai ammazzati non puoi fare altro». La vendetta è sempre la parte più facile. La parte più difficile arriva in seguito, cioè convivere con la consapevolezza di ciò che si è fatto, e di ciò che si è dovuto sopportare, o che è stato inflitto ai propri cari.

La culpa se apresura siempre hacia su complemento, el castigo, y sólo allí encuentra satisfacción.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.