Quotes About Atonement

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa [Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault].

Your blood be upon your own heads.

It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people.

Without shedding of blood is no remission.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.

The blood of Christ has changed our standing before the sight of God. Our lives should demonstrate this glorious change before the sight of men.

The shedding of our Savior's blood was significant not for the blood itself but for what it represents. It represents the perfect, sinless life of Christ poured out unto death for us (Isa. 53:12).

Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.

The cross reveals that we're called to a deeper, fuller experience of what it means to be alive and open to new dimensions of life which our religious boundaries - creeds, atonement theologies - have kept us from experiencing.

God made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

The Czech crisis had drawn international attention away from the plight of the Jews during the latter part of 1938. Jews who wanted to leave Germany or Austria had to pay an exorbitant 'atonement tax', which left them with hardly any money.

Jesus Christ paid the price for our eternal salvation through the shedding of His blood on Calvary's cross for all men—equally.

Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

So anyway, I'm sorry I was a dick.' 'It's fine,' I said. 'No, shut up, I'm atoning.

Sin brings alienation between humans and God, but confession of sin brings restoration.

McKnight is right: the "atonement is all about creating a society in which God's will is actualized—on planet earth, in the here and now.

The idea that sins can be forgiven is at the root of mankind's problems. Everyone pays...sooner or later.

The crime is the punishment.

But perhaps Rank is right and humility is an atonement for your great inner pride and knowingness about your self!