Quotes About Atonement

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

And this is why Jesus came: to endure the holy wrath of God due us.

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

Christ exhausted the cup of God's wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.

The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.

God's wrath was not just withdrawn. It was spent. Full atonement can it be? Hallelujah, what a Savior!

Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.