Quotes About Atonement

La verdadera justicia consiste en pagar sólo una vez por cada error. Lo que es verdaderamente injusto es pagar varias veces por el mismo error.

Las personas, por sí mismas, no son capaces de perdonar, eso no es algo que entre dentro de sus posibilidades. No tienen el poder de hacer que se convierta en nada un pecado que ya ha ocurrido.

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.

The great love was displayed for us at cavalry

We can never atone for all the harm we cause in our lifetimes. We each make decisions based on personal priorities. In the process, people are invariably shunted aside. Someone suffers. —teaching of the new Philosophical Academy

We believe that confession should lead to forgiveness and redemption. Usually, however, it leads only to further accusations.

I'm sorry I did this to you. It's all my fault. What can I do to make it right?

The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.

Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life; what's really perplexing is that He suffered in our place. Why did the innocent One suffer for our sins?

Gwendolyn had been seeking to atone for her father's sins, but instead she found herself exalted by this potent combination of power and vulnerability, both Bernard's and hers. She was no longer his captive, but a willing supplicant on the altar of his pleasure. Her absolution was sweeter than anything she had anticipated, but not nearly as sweet as the moment when Bernard dropped to his knees and pressed her cheek to his thundering heart.

If you brought harm, no matter the reason, you had to set it right as best you could.

The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.

It is by giving our whole hearts to the Master and keeping His commandments that we come to know Him. In time, through the power of the Atonement, our hearts are changed, and we can become like Him.

I was hunting the monster that had killed my sister. I was the monster that had killed his brother.

In a court of justice, one might consider that atonement for a—" He breaks off and laughs softly. "—crime of passion. And that, my dear complicated fucking Ms. Lane, is the closest thing to an apology you will ever get from a man who apologizes to no one. Take it or leave it.

a thousand good intentions could never tip the scale over one unforgivable mistake.

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

One third of our life is spent in sleep. It is consolation for the troubles of our waking hours or atonement for their pleasures; but I have never experienced sleep to be mere repose. After a few minutes lethargy, a new life begins, untrammeled by the limitations of time and space, and undoubtedly similar to that which awaits us after death...

For what terrible sins of the past must we bear the torments of the present and the dark shadow of the future?

We must never forget that the paschal mystery does not expose that which man has done to offend God but that which God has done to redeem man. Lent is never about me, no matter how much I may have wronged the Lord; Lent is always about Christ Jesus and his sacrificial love.

It was another terrible spiritual picture of the monstrous evil of idolatry that day. And it was Phineas' cleansing act that stopped the plague. From that moment on, the sickness released its stranglehold on the Israelites and faded away. Phineas would receive a promise of perpetual priesthood, because that very day Phineas was jealous for Yahweh and made atonement for the people of Israel.

the problem was that the instruments of Yahweh's wrath were still men. And the taking of human life, though morally justified, was still the destruction of man created in the image of Yahweh. And once you had taken human life, it changed you. You were no longer an innocent. You had stepped into a polluted river of pain that cried out for redemption, for atonement.

what purpose it serves?" "To bear the guilt of the people and remind us of the ongoing need of having Yahweh in our minds.