Atonement Quotes - Page 7

• A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Race, Guilt, Done

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

  Alfred Adler

  Self, Indulge In, Example

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• Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Men, Race

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “Message of the President of the United States Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress”

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• If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ, and uses the old words redemption, the cross, even sacrifice and atonement-but what is his Gospel? That is the crucial question. Is salvation, perfect, entire, eternal,-justification, sanctification, glory,-the alone work of Christ, and the free gift of God to faith alone?

  C. I. Scofield

  Christian, Running, Sacrifice

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• Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble it may be, will kindle the fires of faith and work its miracle towards a more Christlike life. It is an inescapable consequence of so doing. We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ’s life and live his teachings, we become more like him.

  Tad R. Callister

  Appreciation, Teaching, Fire

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• We really are immortal in the sense that Christ’s Atonement conquers death, both physical and spiritual. And provided we have so lived Today that we have claim on the Atonement’s cleansing grace, we will live forever with God. This life is not so much a time for getting and accumulating as it is a time for giving and becoming. Mortality is the battlefield upon which justice and mercy meet. But they need not meet as adversaries, for they are reconciled in the Atonement of Jesus Christ for all who wisely use Today.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• In becoming a whole person, the grateful leper was healed inside as well as on the outside. That day nine lepers were healed skin deep, but only one had the faith to be made whole. The tenth leper [was] changed eternally by [his] faith in the Savior and the healing power of his atonement.

  Merrill J. Bateman

  Grateful, Healing, Skins

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• Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Achieve, Accepting

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.403, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Ellen G. White

  Character, Order, Appreciate

  "Counsels On Diet and Foods" by Ellen G. White. Section 2, p. 47, 1938.

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• It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.

  Joseph Priestley

  Doctrine, May, Scripture

  Joseph Priestley (1871). “A History of the Corruptions of Christianity”, p.52

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• Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.

  Joseph Priestley

  Angel, Spain, Essentials

  Joseph Priestley (1793). “An History of the Corruptions of Christianity”, p.469

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• Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.'

  Edward Bellamy

  Husband, Regret, Men

  "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 11, 1880.

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• Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?

  Chris Abani

  Hate, Past, People

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• Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.

  John Banville

  Half, Letters, Firsts

  "A Day in the Life". New York Review of Books Article, www.nybooks.com. May 26, 2005.

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Foundation, Doctrine

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• It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Ideas, Perfection

  "The life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by John Hawkins, 1787.

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• As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, ... that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement, with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.

  Joseph Priestley

  Character, Government, Atheism

  "A History of the Corruptions of Christianity". Book by Joseph Priestley, Part II: Opinions Relating to the Doctrine of Atonement, Introduction, 1782.

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• Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life. Because your Father in Heaven loves you profoundly, the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes that strength possible. Isn’t it wonderful? Many of you have felt the burden of poor choices, and each of you can feel the elevating power of the Lord’s forgiveness, mercy, and strength.

  Richard G. Scott

  Jesus, Children, Father

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• The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the Atonement provides help for us to overcome and avoid bad and to do and become good. Help from the Savior is available for the entire journey of mortality - from bad to good to better and to change our very nature.

  David A. Bednar

  Journey, Overcoming, Becoming

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• The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.

  Ian Mcewan

  Littles, Return, Details

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.76, Random House

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• When you understand the Atonement, then you understand the joy of being rescued.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Joy

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• Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• The depth of our belief in the Resurrection and the Atonement of the Savior will, I believe, determine the measure of courage and purpose with which we meet life's challenges.

  James E. Faust

  Believe, Challenges, Depth

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• It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Light, Shining, Infinite

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• With confidence we testify that the Atonement of Jesus Christ has anticipated and, in the end, will compensate all deprivation and loss for those who turn to Him. No one is predestined to receive less than all that the Father has for His children.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Jesus, Children, Father

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