Inspirational Quotes on Atonement

“God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.”

“If you are ready to partake of grace you have not to atone for your sins--you have merely to accept of the atonement. All that you want to do is to cry, "God have mercy upon me," and you will receive the blessing.”

“The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.”

“Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free.”

“Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money's worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him - His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.”

“The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.”

“Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.”

“Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.”

“Our entire confidence in our acceptance before God is based solely upon the fact that Jesus was our legal representative in His sinless life and obedient death.”

“In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.”

“When the sin is removed, which it was by the Atonement of Christ on the Cross, Satan, the serpent, loses his hold, which gives him no more claim on believing sinners.”

“The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save His church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.”

“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”

“Christ did not die simply that you might be saved from a bad conscience, or even to remove the stain of past failure, but to "clear the decks" for divine action.”

“The moment you are redeemed through the atoning death of Christ upon the cross, you receive the Holy Spirit within your human spirit.”

“For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.”

“We all carry about in our pockets His very nails.”

“Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.”

“Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the place that we deserve in order that we might enjoy what we don't deserve. This is good news. Let us tell all our friends!”

“Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.”