I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that
people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral
teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must
not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said
would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the
level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice.
Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool,
you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and
call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about
his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not
intend to. (Mere Christianity, 1952 p.43, C.S. Lewis)
"What would happen if God laid aside one of His attributes for one second to
become man? This is an excellent starting point for studying the current crisis
among Christians in our understanding of the person of Christ." R.C. Sproul
All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass--"Jesus Christ came into
the world to save sinners." Archibald Alexander
"Comparative theology testifies that Jesus Christ, who is not less truly the
incarnation of the Christian's theology than of the Christian's God, is indeed
the desire of the nations, but not their product, their invention, or their
discovery." George D.B. Pepper
"This is faith: a renoucing of everything we are apt to call our own and
relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus." John
Newton, English author and composer
"In the church of Jesus Christ there should be no non-theologians. " Karl
Barth, Swiss Theologian
"Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish: then He cleans
them." Mark Potter, British Court Judge
"John Newton's tombstone reads, 'John Newton, Clerk, once an infidel and
libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the
faith he had long labored to destroy." John Newton, author of Amazing Grace.
"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of
Jesus." Mother Theresa of Calcutta
"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."
Oswald Chambers
" I can say
that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or
cared to live until I chose to die. For those two discoveries I am beholden to
Jesus." Malcolm Muggeridge
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what
foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ
founded an empire on love, and a this hour millions of men would die for
Him." Napoleon Bonaparte, French General, Politician,
and Emperor. 1769-1821
"No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to
speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says,
'Because He did, I can forgive you." Billy Graham, American Evangelist
"It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in
God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost
Him at chuurch, and they were not the last ones tolose Him there."
Vance Havner American Baptist preacher
"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
Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist and Writer 1821-1881
“Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us
like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is
a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.” (Carrel 1952,
Chap. 6, Part 7). ALEXIS CARREL, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology
“Our hearts remain full of unseen idols until we
are stretched on the wood of the Cross with Christ, until we cease trying to
nourish ourselves and our desires, and give ourselves completely to the poor, to
the needy, to the suffering members of Christ’s body throughout the world.” (Mauriac,
Notre Dame, 1964).
FRANCOIS MAURIAC, Nobel Laureate in
Literature
“Charity begins today. Today somebody is suffering, today
somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. Our work is for today,
yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come - today, we have only
today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered, etc.
Today - do not to wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow might not come. Tomorrow we will
not have them if we do not feed them today.” (Mother Teresa 1991).
“Christ has come to bring the good news for you and for me. And as if that was
not enough - it was not enough to become a man - He died on the cross to show
that greater love, and He died for you and for me and for that leper and for
that man dying of hunger and that naked person lying in the street not only of
Calcutta, but of Africa, and New York, and London, and Oslo - and insisted that
we love one another as He loves each one of us.” (Mother Teresa, as cited in
Thee 1995, 499).
MOTHER TERESA, Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate
“If there is any place on earth
where earthly distinctions vanish it is in the church, in the presence of God.
The nearer the people get to the heart of Christ, the nearer they get to each
other, irrespective of earthly conditions.” (Theodore Roosevelt, The Free
Citizen, New York, The Macmillan Company, Hermann Hagedorn - editor, 1956, p.
31). THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate
“The Scriptures clearly teach that if men are to be saved
they must be saved through Christ. He alone can deliver them from the power of
sin and its penalty. His death made salvation possible.
The Word of God sets forth the conditions of salvation. God has chosen to have
these conditions made known through human instruments. Christians have a duty to
preach Christ to every creature. The burning question for every Christian then
is: Shall hundreds of millions of people now living, who need Christ and are
capable of receiving help from Him, pass away without having even the
opportunity to know Him?” (Mott, as cited in DuBose 1979).
“It is our duty to evangelize the world because we owe all men the gospel. What
a crime against mankind to keep a knowledge of the mission of Christ from two
thirds of the human race! It is our duty to evangelize the world in this
generation because of the missionary command of Christ.” (John R. Mott 1944).
JOHN R. MOTT, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
“Love of God does not mean we must love Him first. Rather, He
loved us first, creating the world and leaving it in our care, sending His only
son to us to spread the gospel, and, finally, opening the way for us to deliver
ourselves from sin through the crucifixion of His innocent son, Jesus. Through
Jesus’ resurrection, God gave us hope for eternal life.” (Kim Dae-jung,
Prison Writings, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). KIM DAE-JUNG,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
“Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and
before whom we humble ourselves without despair.” (Pascal 1910, No. 528).
“Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is
free from vice and misery; in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart
from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.” (Pascal 1910,
No. 545-546). BLAISE PASCAL, founder of Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics
