Quotes About Atonement

If humility is the first, the all-inclusive grace of the life of Jesus—if humility is the secret of His atonement—then the health and strength of our spiritual life will depend entirely upon our putting this grace first and making humility the chief quality we admire in Him, the chief attribute we ask of Him, the one thing for which we sacrifice all else.

The blood was shed to unite us to God.

each person must acknowledge the sins of which he himself is guilty.

It is the blood that unites the beginning and the end; that GLORIOUSLY RESTORES WHAT SIN HAD DESTROYED.

without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. Without remission of sins there is no life. But by the shedding of His BLOOD He has obtained a new life for us. By what He calls the drinking of His blood He shares His life with us. The blood SHED in the Atonement, which frees us from the SIN, the guilt of sin; and from death, the punishment of sin; the blood, which by faith we drink, bestows on us His life.

It will become clear that there is no single scriptural idea, from Genesis to Revelation, more constantly and more prominently kept in view, than that expressed by the Words—"The Blood." Our inquiry then is what the Scriptures

In that blood, dwelt the soul of the holy Son of God.

His brain sits before its cash register again, charging him for old shames as if he has not paid before.

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself...

The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.

Christ, therefore,   died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world.

the apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ. Since

all worship is unclean and wicked unless purified by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ.

Although brethren die for brethren, yet no martyr's blood is shed for the remission of sins: this Christ did for us, and in this conferred upon us not what we should imitate, but what should make us grateful," (August. Tract. in Joann. 84).

we must realize that death was not a pleasure or a game for Christ, and that he suffered excruciation to the utmost for our sakes.

Christ descended to us, to bear us up to the Father, and at the same time to bear us up to himself, inasmuch as he is one with the Father.

The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. They looked upward to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. They looked forward to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see him again. And we ought to do the same

If someone goes to prison for you, you will want to thank that person exceedingly. How much more so for the one who dies for you?

God, without ever ceasing to be God, actually became what he created in order to reconcile us to himself.

He became sin so you could be holy. He was broken so you could be whole. He was a man of sorrow, so you could have joy. He was bruised for your iniquity. He fasted so you could feast. By His stripes, you were healed. He bore poverty, so you could righteously prosper. He felt orphaned so you could be adopted as sons. Let us begin to see Him not so much as a teacher or moral guide, but as one who stepped in and took our place.

It would be one kind of penance. And there are never enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for you, my friend.

Thomas Grantham (1634–92) stood out as a major theological writer for the General Baptists later in the seventeenth century. The General Baptists believed that Christ died for the sins of all ("general atonement"), not that all would believe.

The causes of evil karma are greed, anger, and ignorance—the three poisons. We create karma through action, by what we do with our body, words, and thoughts. In atoning we take full and unequivocal responsibility for it all. When we do that, we empower ourself. It becomes our evil karma, not someone else's. We acknowledge ourself as an active agent, not a passive victim. We begin to recognize that our life is not just something that happens to us.

All evil karma ever committed by me since of old, Because of my beginningless greed, anger, and ignorance, Born of my body, mouth, and thought, Now I atone for it all.