109 Quotes About Atonement

Jesus came to be with the Father for an interlude before his betrayal, but found hell rather than heaven opened before him, and he staggered.

Atonement does not always directly help the one we have sinned against. It does not always help anyone at all. Had Boromir run of with Aragorn, he could have been of greater help in tracking the orcs after Merry and Pippin were captured than he was in giving his life to defend them.

But it is a sad and fatal mistake to treat those other ways [atonement theories] as though they lay on the same plane with this one foundation way [penal substitutionary theory]; in reality the other "theories" of the atonement lose all their meaning unless they are taken in connection with this blessed "theory".

The symbol [of the cross] often swallows the historic scandal that gave it birth and appeases the appalling experience with which the first generation of Christians had to come to terms.

It was not for the entire world that Christ made atonement, for if He had, all the world would be saved.

The atoning work of Christ lays the foundation of sanctification

I have given away my life Bilala. Promise me, if you get one back, you will not throw it away.

I walk with bare, hushed feet the groundYe tread with boldness shod;I dare not fix with mete and boundThe love and power of God...I know not where his islands liftTheir fronded palms in the air;I only know I cannot driftBeyond his love and care.

It was not said, "When I see you happy in your houses, or with gratitude in your hearts, I will pass over you;" but, "When I see the blood.