Quotes About Atonement

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God's awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.

When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.