Quotes about Atonement

we must realize that death was not a pleasure or a game for Christ, and that he suffered excruciation to the utmost for our sakes.

Christ descended to us, to bear us up to the Father, and at the same time to bear us up to himself, inasmuch as he is one with the Father.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...

The early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for his return. They looked backward to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. They looked upward to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. They looked forward to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see him again. And we ought to do the same

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.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

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.

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.