Quotes About Atonement

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Guilt's a terrible thing.

retribution [sic] for the wrongs I have committed.

Everything that God said about redemption means, the saving grace allowed you to be forgiven.

Everything 'Atonement' does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

annihilation, forgiveness, punishment or peace.

Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there's no use in trying." He

he'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it

Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope for sunlight.

I spent the best years of my life atoning for something I didn't do, something my parents didn't do, something done just about before I was ever even born. I got no complaints with that, but I'm about all atoned out, and I ain't yet gotten round to atoning for the things I did do.

When we see the crucifixion as a legal transaction in which Jesus "paid the bill," we run the risk of cheapening the work of restoration at the heart of the cross. After

He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. (Colossians 2:14–15)

There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.

If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

For Allie would suffer for what she had done this night. And he would be the last person on this earth who could comfort her.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

She wanted to go back, to clean it all up, to rewrite her story without all the dark parts, to unknow the things she knew, to unsee the things she'd seen, to live without her memories, her shame, her regret. And maybe that was a kind of atonement, after all. But none of those things were possible.