#atone

These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#against #atonement #been #charged #charges

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#atonement #baseness #cruelty #deed #deep

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#commanded #day #forgiveness #hurt #jews

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

#annual #atonement #came #day #decisive

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#guilt #love

...I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty--guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard--but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us. ↗

— Sheri Dew

#gospel #guilt #mercy #peace #religion

God uses no magic wand to simply wave bad things into nonexistence. The sins that he remits, he remits by making them his own and suffering them. The pain and heartaches that he relieves, he relieves by suffering them himself. These things can be shared and absorbed, but they cannot be simply wished or waved away. They must be suffered. ↗

— Stephen E. Robinson

#inspirational #inspirational

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#inspirational #penance #religious #inspirational

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness... ↗

— James E. Talmage

#christ #forgiveness #forgiveness

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

#baseball #depressed #get #great #happy