25th Aug 2007
The Greatest Quotes are the...
QUOTES ON JESUS CHRIST
I know men and I tell you that Jesus
Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world
there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar,
Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the
creation of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire
upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him. Napoleon
No
one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which
Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man
has been so devoutly loved. --John Knox
Even those who have
renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still
follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the
ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man
and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old. --Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself
as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and
became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. --Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus
of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than
Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science
and learning, he shed more light on things human and divine than all
philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of school, he
spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and
produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without
writing a single line, he set more pens in motion, and furnished themes
for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art,
and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and
modern times. Philip Schaff
I am an historian, I am not a
believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless
preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus
Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.--H.G. Wells
As
the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His
effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on
this planet. -- Historian Kenneth Scott Latourette
Here is a
man who was born in an obscure village, the Child of a peasant woman.
He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three
years He was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never
held an office. He never owned a home. He never had a family. He never
went to college. He never put His foot inside a big city. He never
traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He never
did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no
credentials but Himself. He had nothing to do with this world except
the naked power of His Divine manhood. While still a young man, the
tide of popular opinion turned against Him. He was turned over to His
enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a
Cross between two thieves. His executioners gambled for the only piece
of property He had on earth while He was dyingand that was His coat.
When He was dead He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through
the pity of a friend. Such was His human lifeHe rises from the dead.
Nineteen wide centuries have come and gone and today He is the
Centerpiece of the human race and the Leader of the column of progress.
I am within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched,
and all the navies that ever were built, and all the parliaments that
ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not
affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that One
Solitary Life. --James C. Hefley
Socrates taught for 40 years,
Plato for 50, Aristotle for 40, and Jesus for only 3. Yet the influence
of Christ's 3-year ministry infinitely transcends the impact left by
the combined 130 years of teaching from these men who were among the
greatest philosophers of all antiquity. Unknown
I have read in
Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I
never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are
heavy laden." --Augustine
Buddha never claimed to be God. Moses
never claimed to be Jehovah. Mohammed never claimed to be Allah. Yet
Jesus Christ claimed to be the true and living God. Buddha simply said,
"I am a teacher in search of the truth." Jesus said, "I am the Truth."
Confucius said, "I never claimed to be holy." Jesus said, "Who convicts
me of sin?" Mohammed said, "Unless God throws his cloak of mercy over
me, I have no hope." Jesus said, "Unless you believe in me, you will
die in your sins." --Unknown
Fundamentally, our Lord's message
was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is
that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the
bread." He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the
light." He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the
door." He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the
shepherd." He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the
way, the truth, and the life." --J. Sidlow Baxter
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.
Blaise Pascal
As
a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I
am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the
Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual
presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is
filled with such life. --Albert Einstein
An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth. --Geza Vermes
There
is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His
sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun. -- Charles
Edward Jefferson
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. -- Joseph Parker
In
Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the
depth in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
--Karl Barth
It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many
other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding
from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a
bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He
himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was
crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he
expected longer the devotion of any disciplesunless He was sure He was
going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared
say a thing like that! --Wilbur Smith
Because Christianity's
influence is so pervasive throughout much of the world, it is easy to
forget how radical its beliefs once were. Jesus' resurrection forever
changed Christians' view of death. Rodney Stark, sociologist at the
University of Washington, points out that when a major plague hit the
ancient Roman Empire, Christians had surprisingly high survival rates.
Why? Most Roman citizens would banish any plague-stricken person from
their household. But because Christians had no fear of death, they
nursed their sick instead of throwing them out on the streets.
Therefore, many Christians survived the plague. --"2000 Years of Jesus"
by Kenneth L. Woodward, NEWSWEEK, March 29, 1999, p. 55.
Despite
our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is
bracketed by two impossibilities: "a virgin's womb and an empty tomb".
Jesus entered our world through a door marked,"No Entrance" and left
through a door marked "No Exit." --Peter Larson
I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.
Larry King
The
most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a
civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus
Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith. --Fyodor Dostoevski
If
I might comprehend Jesus Christ, I could not believe on Him. He would
be no greater than myself. Such is my consciousness of sin and
inability that I must have a superhuman Saviour. --Daniel Webster
Jesus
Christ: The meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity
and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth Anonymous
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