expiatory

• “In our view, punishment ought to be regarded as at once an expiation and a discipline, or, in other words, an expiatory discipline.”

  Crime and Its Causes

• “For the last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by Greece, and improving upon her teacher, has been the source of law and government and social civilization; "Judea has given to the world a pure Theism and the idea of expiatory sacrifice; and what neither one nor all of these could furnish," the perfection of moral and spiritual truth, has been given by christianity.”

  The Historic Significance of the Southern Revolution: A Lecture Delivered by Invitation in Petersburg, Va., March 14th and April 29th, 1864, and in Richmond, Va., April 7th and April 21st, 1864

• “It is not denied that his teachings have great value, or that what is called his expiatory suffering for sin is effective in a degree, on men’s feeling, as well as efficacious in the satisfaction of justice; and it is continually put to his credit, in this same suffering and satisfaction, that he has purchased the Holy.”

  The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.

• “Consequently, if the Church as a whole feels the pain of shame and disgrace, that can be an expiatory suffering for a sexually dissolute and depraved age.”

  Suffer the little children to come unto me « Anglican Samizdat

• “But it must be understood in all its fullness as a victory for all, for both Jew and Christian alike; otherwise the whole expiatory point of Kolbe's substitution is lost.”

  Anti-Catholicism

• “There was probably something expiatory in this mad dash.”

  Simon & Schuster: Henry’s Demons

• “Where woman is used as an expiatory victim, enslaved for the sole crime of having been born a woman, all those who know that this obscurantism leads to even greater disaster must rise.”

  The Huffington Post: Bernard-Henri Lévy: Three More Letters to Sakineh

• “Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Any holy priest who suffered the dry martyrdom of working 'under' Cardinal Bernardin & his Lavender Mafia proteges you what expiatory suffering REALLY is....”

  "I worked under Cardinal Bernardin and he taught me how to collaborate..."

• “Only in union with the divine Head does human suffering take on expiatory power.”

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