Quotes About Atonement

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

Die Schuldigen werden ihre Strafe bekommen.

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged. Now, if you please.

Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?

Christ frees us, not just from the penalty for sin, but from sin itself (John 1:29).

You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.

It is only by the sharp thorn of his [Christ's] suffering that the poisonous thorn of our sin is drawn.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ does not just provide a way to clean up messes; it provides the purpose and desire to avoid making more messes. The Atonement doesn't allow us to ignore our appetites or pretend they don't matter, but to educate and elevate them.

Another dirt clod smashed against the wall in a gritty burst. And another. He could not throw them hard enough. Part of him wished somebody was throwing the dirt clods at him. Or beating him, or locking him in jail. He had no means to express how remorseful he felt, no way to pay for what he had done. And no way to fix the mistake.

Some mistakes, though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them, no matter what you do.

He is a good man—despite it all, he is a good man. A sacrificing man. In truth, all of his actions—all of the deaths, destructions, and pains that he has caused—have hurt him deeply. All of these things were, in truth, a kind of sacrifice for him.

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

God uses no magic wand to simply wave bad things into nonexistence. The sins that he remits, he remits by making them his own and suffering them. The pain and heartaches that he relieves, he relieves by suffering them himself. These things can be shared and absorbed, but they cannot be simply wished or waved away. They must be suffered.

Solus Christus, meaning "Christ alone": There is no other mediator between God and sinful humanity than Christ. He alone, based on his work on the cross, grants access to the Father.

The Old Covenant stressed what the people had to do, but the New Covenant focuses entirely on what Christ has done on our behalf.

At the age of twenty, I failed to grasp the difference between guilt, which can almost always be atoned for, and grief, which can only be borne.