Quotes About Atonement

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God

There is a greater grace for every great sin.

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.

The miracle of Good Friday is that there was no miracle. Legions of angels stood - with swords sheathed - watching as the Son took our place.

Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

America is a great country, and we've done a lot of good in the world. But we are a collection of people, not saints. We have our own sins to atone for.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.