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Quotes About Atonement

It was no more than a single grain of sand from a mountain of sins Halsey yeah to atone for, and it didn't change a thing for Kurt, but she had to start somewhere.
~ Karen Traviss
He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.
~ Karl Barth
When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.
~ J. C. Ryle
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Golf is the Lord's punishment for man's sins.
~ James Reston, Jr.
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
~ John Milton
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
~ John Stott
Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.
~ Hermann Adler
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
~ George Whitefield
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
~ Miles J. Stanford
Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
~ James A. Garfield
Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up.
~ Todd Stocker
It isn't enough to just be on the journey; we must be awake to our duty and continue with faith as we draw upon the comforting, strengthening, enabling, and healing power of the Atonement.
~ Carole M. Stephens
God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.
~ Richard Carrier
Peccatum est deicidium—sin is deicide. As
~ William Gurnall
Thou art a dead man if thou think to answer thy sin with proportionable sorrow; thou wilt soon be above thy depth, and quackle[12] thyself with thy own tears, but never get over the least sin thou committedst.
~ William Gurnall
This eye, beholding its sin piercing Christ, and Christ pardoning its sin, affects the heart. The
~ William Gurnall
two of the most fascinating yet troublesome topics in moral philosophy—forgiveness and redemption—issues that must be dealt with together. Without forgiveness there can be no redemption, and forgiveness that does not grant redemption is hollow.
~ William Irwin
Once someone's dead, being sorry doesn't cut it. If you hit a man, you can apologize. If you destroy his property, you can pay him back. But if you take his life, there's nothing you can ever do to make that right. Do you understand?
~ William Kent Krueger