Quotes about Atonement
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.
- Paul Washer
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.
- Susanna Wesley
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
- Timothy Keller
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.
- Herman Bavinck
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
- Martin Luther
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
- JC Ryle
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
- DA Carson
The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God's justice.
- RC Sproul
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.
- Jonathan Goforth
God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.
- Alistair Begg
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
- Anselm of Canterbury
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
- Martin Luther