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

«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.»

«In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein: / But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish: / And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram; / A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: / And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.»

«But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.»

«Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: / And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.»

«And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish: / And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram, / And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: / And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you: / Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.»

«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.»

«And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein: / But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish: / And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram, / A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: / One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.»

«But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the LORD, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.»

«The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.»