Quotes about Atonement

But He, unshaken, with exultant voice cried, It is finished! and gave up the ghost. Finished--when men had thought it scarce begun.

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

He died for the ungodly, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. There wasn't one lovely or good thing in any of us that could draw out love from the heart of a holy Savior—there was everything to repel. Yet the infinite God, the altogether lovely One, whose ideal of love surely is far beyond anything we could ever imagine, whose capacity for love is beyond our understanding altogether, He loved us and gave Himself for us.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.

He reconciles them with God through His death. That means that in His own death He makes their peace with God--before they themselves have decided for this peace and quite apart from that decision. In believing, they are only conforming to the decision about them that has already been made in Him.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Son of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.