Quotes about Atonement

The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, "The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others." I believe that's true. My cross suddenly

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

An unsuffering Christ Who did not freely pay the debt of human guilt would be reduced to the level of an ethical guide;

The skin of Christ is the parchment, His blood the ink, the nails the pen. There we see written the story of our life.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

The death of Jesus breaks the chain between evil actions and evil consequences

Indeed, how can white society atone for enslaving, for raping, for unmanning, for otherwise brutalizing millions of human beings, for centuries? What atonement would the God of Justice demand for the robbery of the black people's labor, their lives, their true identities, their culture, their history--and even their human dignity?

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