Atonement Quotes - Page 2

• Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

  W. H. Auden

  Forgiveness, Party, Unique

  14 Copy quote

• You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Baseball, Depressing

  11 Copy quote

• I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, World, God Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.77, The Golden Sufi Center

  126 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

  Lionel Blue

  Inspirational, Dance, Mother

  12 Copy quote

• We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Determination, Regret, Moving

  87 Copy quote

• Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

  Janet Suzman

  Father, Winning, Years

  7 Copy quote

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  Otto Weininger

  Answers, Faults, Improvement

  27 Copy quote

• Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.

  Ian Mcewan

  Love You, Shame, Romance Movie

  Christopher Hampton, Ian McEwan (2008). “Atonement: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful - we have far more control over the choice to sin than we may have over our innate capacity. . . . A sense of falling short or falling down is not only natural but essential to the mortal experience. Still, after all we can do, the Atonement can fill that which is empty, straighten our bent parts, and make strong that which is weak.

  Bruce C. Hafen

  Strong, Fall, Choices

  17 Copy quote

• It isn't enough to just be on the journey; we must be awake to our duty and continue with faith as we draw upon the comforting, strengthening, enabling, and healing power of the Atonement.

  Carole M. Stephens

  Healing, Journey, Comforting

  19 Copy quote

• Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine - the Son of God - to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  "Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley". Ensign magazine, p. 64, March 2001.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Profound

  17 Copy quote

• A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Novelists, Vulnerable

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

  Ian Mcewan

  Novelists, Outcomes, Achieve

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin

  Merrill J. Bateman

  Grief, Men, Miracle

  7 Copy quote

• He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

  Ian Mcewan

  Heart, Darkness, Lines

  7 Copy quote

• We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Men, Numbers

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1087, New Leaf Publishing Group

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do it, you're in sin; you are in sin. And if you turn it over to a Sunday school teacher, you are in sin. And you are to be teaching these children more than just stories about animals that went into Noah's ark. You're to be teaching them about God, about radical depravity, about blood atonement, about propitiation, expiation, justification, sanctification; you are to teach your children!

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  74 Copy quote

• Christmas is a time for remembering the Son of God and renewing our determination to take upon us His name. It is a time to reassess our lives and examine our thoughts, feelings, and actions. Let this be a time of remembrance, of gratitude, and a time of forgiveness. Let it be a time to ponder the Atonement of Jesus Christ and its meaning for each of us personally. Let it especially be a time of renewal and recommitment to live by the word of God and to obey His commandments. By doing this, we honor Him far more than we ever could with lights, gifts, or parties.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Jesus, Determination

  10 Copy quote

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  Ian Mcewan

  Beach, Dirty, Writing

  "Ian McEwan: 'It's good to get your hands dirty a bit'" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.

  Ian Mcewan

  Atheist, Imagination, Forgiving

  7 Copy quote

• We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Past, Time And Change, Go Back In Time

  10 Copy quote

• Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Christ, Sincere

  16 Copy quote

• The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Heart, Ideas, Enlightenment

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine 5 (2), pp. 268-273, 1895.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Regret, Tears, Wipe

  8 Copy quote