Quotes About Atonement

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

Sacrifice is repeating the event that has saved the community from its own violence, which is killing a victim.

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

I preach salvation by grace through faith alone. I preach for the repentance of sin.

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

The stony soil of our heart, the rock foundation of our corrupt human nature, need not, therefore, be the basis for judgment upon us. It can be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, just as the hill of Golgotha was when drops of blood fell upon it and it was transformed from a place of execution to the Rock of Atonement.

There were some things in life that could never be forgiven or forgotten. - Scott Harvath

I . . . should have known . . . that my . . . torment was not yet finished, my guilt not forgiven.

The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.

The old Confession was written by men who knew what it felt like to have done bad things: "We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable." Indeed.

Jesus died crying out to God 'My God, why hast thou forsaken me?' All Christian theology and all Christian life is basically an answer to the question which Jesus asked as he died.