Quotes About Atonement

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

You could obtain forgiveness for murder, but not in this life. It had to come in the next. To repent, you had to allow your life to be taken.

O my soul! Nothing comes between you and God but the atoning blood of Jesus. His blood annihilates all your sin and guilt. Robed in His imputed righteousness, you are to God nearer than the highest angel in heaven--and nearer you can not be--and God draws near to you and speaks--A God at hand, says the Lord.

Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.

The atoning work of Christ lays the foundation of sanctification

He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Yom Kippur. For Jews this is the day when we ask forgiveness for our sins, the holiest day of our calendar.

Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

It was expected that men would marry, and it was assumed something was wrong if they didn't. Later rabbis often quoted the saying, "He who has no wife dwells without good, without help, without joy, without blessing, and without atonement" (Gen. Rab. 17.2)!

Let me atone for all the sins of men. Let me release the deluge pent up in me. Let me die.

Wrong because Christ had died for them and they were now killing him again.

Because what good's confession without penance—right

Lord, I do not know fully what the value of the blood is, but I know that the blood has satisfied Thee; so the blood is enough for me, and it is my only plea.

For Christianity begins not with a big do, but with a big done.

I've been asking the Lord to forgive me for the things in my past that brought this upon all of you. I have asked before, and I will ask again, please forgive me.

Jesus Christ is for his brethren by standing in their place." —CHRISTOLOGY

God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you.

Thus it seems that the Cross of Christ, laden with every sinful refusal of man, must stand at the very last extremity of hell; indeed, it must stand beyond hell, where the Son is forsaken by the Father in a way that only he can know.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?