Quotes about Atonement

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.

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.