Quotes about Atonement
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.
- Timothy Keller
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.
- John Stott
God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.
- Martin Luther
Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.
- Max Lucado
Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.
- Philip Yancey
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
- Andy Stanley
Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.
- Charles Spurgeon
Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.
- Tullian Tchividjian
God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
- Oswald Chambers
No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
- Oswald Chambers
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
- Desmond Tutu
We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
- Joseph Prince