Quotes About Propitiation

#1. The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

Samuel Johnson

#2. If we cannot claim to live sinless lives, then the only thing that can keep us from despairing before a holy God is that we have an Advocate in heaven and He pleads our case not on the basis of our perfection but of His propitiation.

John Piper

#3. Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Camille Paglia

#4. In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

John The Apostle

#5. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but a also for the sins of the whole world.

Anonymous

#6. Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.

J.I. Packer

#7. I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

Terrell Owens

#8. For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

Werner Herzog

#9. Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.

Adriano Galliani

#10. Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

Saint Augustine

#11. And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

Doris Salcedo

#12. Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka ...

Stephen King

#13. Any soul who has survived to the age of eighty - two with nary a secret would be extremely dull. I, for one, would have very little interest in making their acquaintance.

Ruth Reichl

#14. I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

Ray Dalio

#15. Jesus came to be with the Father for an interlude before his betrayal, but found hell rather than heaven opened before him, and he staggered.

William Lane

#16. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

John B. S. Haldane

#17. There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#18. The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

Patti Smith

#19. When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Lao-Tzu