Quotes about Atonement

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.

Peter preached about [the blood]. Paul wrote about it, and the redeemed in heaven sing about it. In a sense, the New Testament is the Book of the Blood.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

The Apostle says: I make up in my flesh what is lacking to the sufferings of Christ (Col. 1:24). I make up, he tells us, not what is lacking to my sufferings, but what is lacking to the sufferings of Christ; not in Christs flesh, but in mine. not in Christ's flesh, but in mine. Christ is still suffering, not in His own flesh which He took with Him into heaven, but in my flesh, which is still suffering on earth.

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.