Quotes about Atonement
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
- Oswald Chambers
The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.
- Timothy Keller
Sickness and disease are destroyed through the precious atonement of Jesus. O how we ought to honor the stripes of Jesus, for "with his stripes we are healed.
- William Seymour
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
- William Tyndale
YOM KIPPUR. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises.
- Elie Wiesel
The rabbi comes in to read the Psalms with you and hear you say the Vidui, that terrible confession in which you admit your responsibility not only for the sins you have committed, whether by word, deed, or thought, but also for those you may have caused others to commit.
- Elie Wiesel
He died that he might heal our souls with a plaster of his own blood, and by that death save us, which we were the procurers of ourselves, by our own sins.
- Richard Sibbes
Why didn't they just skip the whole sacrificial system all together? That would have been amazing. Just scrap the whole thing. Announce that the final sacrifice has been offered and there's no more need to do such things. Declare that the temple is going to be torn down. Proclaim that it is finished. Oh wait, we're getting ahead of ourselves, aren't we? (Please tell me you enjoyed that last paragraph.)
- Rob Bell
There are only two kinds of religion in the world...They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.
- J. Vernon McGee
There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.
- John Stott
It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them.
- Emily Bronte