Quotes about Atonement

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

The way in which we appropriate the benefits of Christ's atoning death is by faith culminating in baptism

What is the atonement of Christ? It is Himself: it is the inherent and everlasting mercy of God made apparent to human eyes and ears. The everlasting love was disclosed by our Lord's life and death. It showed that God forgives, because He loves to forgive. He works by smiles if possible, if not by frowns; pain is only a means of enforcing love. If we speak of strength, lo! He is strong. The Almighty; the Over Power; the Mind of the Universe. The heart thrills at the idea of His greatness.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

A man is not saved because he believes in Christ, he believes in Christ because he is saved.

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.

When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.