Quotes About Atonement

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.

Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.

It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

David did not pay for his forgiveness. He did pay for his unforgiveness.

Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.

The real cause for Paul's rejection of the 'works of the law' lies beyond both self-understanding and ethics. As we shall see, faith for Paul is the correlate to Christ's cross and resurrection. It is obedience to the promise of God fulfilled in that event (see e.g. Rom. 4:13–25). One is justified not because of a mere inward disposition, but because of Christ in whom God has atoned for sin and effected a new creation.

But Paul knew that his sin was nailed to the cross, and the hammer of God's mercy has no claw.

The whole horrific experience taught me that it is evil for a man to die in payment for another's sins. A blood sacrifice by the innocent to atone for the crimes of the guilty is unjust to both.

Atonement does not always directly help the one we have sinned against. It does not always help anyone at all. Had Boromir run of with Aragorn, he could have been of greater help in tracking the orcs after Merry and Pippin were captured than he was in giving his life to defend them.

Restitution: Find some way to make amends, at least partially.

Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

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there is no Jezebel remedy. There's no conscience chemo. No pill for cheating. No therapeutic number of Hail Marys or blow jobs or home-cooked meals or good-wife deeds.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

If He gave Himself into death for our sins, then undoubtedly He is not a tormentor. He is not One who will cast down the troubled, but One who will raise up the fallen and bring propitiation and consolation to the terrified.

Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

Those who hear the Word of the Gospel concerning Christ are sprinkled with the blood of the Son of God.

Not only are all men without exception declared to be guilty in God's sight, they are slaves to the sin that makes them guilty.

The vicious character of sin is brought out by the words "who gave himself for our sins." So vicious is sin that only the sacrifice of Christ could atone for sin.