Quotes About Atonement

I wondered if DSS had anything like Step 9, where you eventually have to apologize to all the kids you've screwed over.

1a Christ died 2a For our sins 3a In accordance with the scriptures 4a And he was buried. 1b Christ was raised 2b On the third day 3b In accordance with the scriptures 4b And he appeared to Cephas.

Where do any of the ancient sources speak of a divine man who was crucified as an atonement for sin? So far as I know, there are no parallels to this central Christian claim.

Castigation is a doom which achieves itself. In punishing yourself, you come to merit punishment.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.

The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.

The atonement of Jesus Christ is the supreme act of love, the supreme example of selfless concern for others.

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of the incarnate Logos becomes visible... Contemplation does not ignore the "historical Gethsemane," does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.

Happy is the man, that by an unfeigned repentance, acquits his soul from his known evils, and improves the days of his peace to the prevention of future vengeance, which if it be not done, the hand of God shall as surely overtake us in judgment, as the hand of Satan hath overtaken us in miscarriage unto sin.

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.

My life since my conversion has, therefore, been an ongoing act of atonement. In particular, I have sought to use the gifts that God has given me to glorify Him and to bring souls to Him, in contrast to the way that I had previously used those same gifts to glorify his enemies and to lead souls astray. This has been the rationale behind my vocation as a Catholic writer in the twenty-five years since my conversion. The

The faithful of to-day should try by a more ardent contrition to make up for the enforced mildness of the Church in the administration of Penance. 43

I have committed grave sins, and the Lord has closed his eyes. I have called him an izpravnik. He has covered his ears. He is so great that our badness becomes small.

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.

In this case, I can only hope that my life, which is my crime, might also serve as my apology.

And the Lamb of God not only did this, but was chastised on our behalf, and suffered a penalty He did not owe, but which we owed because of the multitude of our sins; and so He became the cause of the forgiveness of our sins, because He received death for us, and transferred to Himself the scourging, the insults, and the dishonour, which were due to us, and drew down on Himself the apportioned curse, being made a curse for us.

Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I'll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.