Atonement

Websters Dictionary 1828:

1. Agreement; concord; reconciliation, after enmity or controversy. Romans 5:11.

2. Expiation; satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing or suffering that which is received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; with for.

3. In theology, the expiation of sin made by the obedience and personal sufferings of Christ.

Quotes:

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity. -David A Bednar

If you have felt the influence of the Holy Ghost today, you may take it as evidence that the Atonement is working your life. -Henry B. Eyring

We can't use the Lord's Atonement as an excuse to not empathize with and serve those in pain. We can be the instruments to bring the healing power of Christ to others. The Atonement of Jesus Christ was a personal experience. He knows you. More than that, He knows how to help you if you come to Him in faith. -Hank Smith

Because of the Savior's Atonement, we can have an eternal perspective that gives meaning to our trials and hope for our relief. -Tad R. Callister

Scriptures: 

2 Nephi 9:7 Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more.

Alma 42:15 And now, the plan of mercy could not be brought about except an atonement should be made; therefore God himself atoneth for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy, to appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also.

Mosiah 13:28 And moreover, I say unto you, that salvation doth not come by the law alone; and were it not for the atonement, which God himself shall make for the sins and iniquities of his people, that they must unavoidably perish, notwithstanding the law of Moses.

Personal Definition:

Christ's suffering in Gesthemane, crucifixion on the cross, and resurrection from the tomb. Through the Atonement we are all forgiven, understood, and provided with a way to live with Heavenly Father and His son Jesus Christ happily for eternity. Because of the Atonement we can be with our families forever. In Mosiah 27:29 it talks about feeling like you're in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity. We've all felt the sadness and guilt of sin and through the atonement we can feel lifted from those feelings until we see hope and light again.