Quotes About Atonement

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

Let us honor the blood of Jesus Christ every moment of our lives, and we will be sweet in our souls.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

I'm thinking skywriting. 'Sorry I was an asshat. Please forgive my stupid butt.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.

True justice is to pay one time for every mistake we make.

To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking.

Without confession, there is no remission of sins.

There is no other shame like senseless sin.

And you know what? I found out that Joe Leonard wasn't the only one who had a scar because of me. I found out that the person's name I had been taking in vain all those years had scars because of me - and not just one. He was nailed to a cross through His hands and feet. He didn't just get hurt for me, He died for me. He did that to pay for my sins, and He did it because He loved me.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

I have been taught by misery, he said. He had learned that no crime was beyond atonement, that even he, defiled by a mother's murder, could be made clean again.

Corporate cunning has developed faster than the laws of nation and state," he remarked to the reporter Lindsay Denison. "Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.

Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.

With our touch, Jesus becomes our scapegoat. In his touch, Jesus takes our sin and absorbs our shame (Psalm 69:9; Romans 15:3), and we receive his righteousness. If you prefer symmetry in your relationships, in which you give a gift of similar value to the one you receive, you have not yet touched Jesus.

The important thing was the shedding of blood. Sounds barbaric, but the Old Testament was reminding us that there was a significant cost involved in moving from unclean to clean. You didn't have to pay it, but it still had to be paid.

Since Jesus became thoroughly identified with sin, he would receive its wrath and judgment in our place. This meant he would experience the worst kind of rejection and alienation from the Father, and he would do this for us.

Egli le rispose che il perdono non bastava a desiderarlo né chiederlo; ch'era una cosa troppo agevole e troppo naturale a chiunque sia trovato in colpa, e tema la punizione.

How vastly preferable a forgiveness which means a giving for, and costs the Forgiver sorrow, sweat, pain, blood, wounds, death--a forgiveness coming from a God who says in effect: "I will not, to save sinners, repeal the law which connects sin with death as its penalty; but I am willing for that end to become myself the law's victim.

But can any man of the least Christian enlightenment believe that the exalted Saviour can look on such rites as doing honour to Him, which pour contempt on His all-perfect atonement, and represent His most "precious blood" as needing to have its virtue supplemented by that of blood drawn from the backs of wretched and misguided sinners? Such offerings were altogether fit for the worship of Moloch; but they are the very opposite of being fit for the service of Christ.