Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes
to the Father except by Me” (John 14:6).
For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His
shoulder. And His
name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6).
There
is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven: the
crucified Son of God (J.C. Ryle).
Luis De Leon said of Jesus: “Christ is given so many names because
of His limitless greatness and the treasury of His very rich perfections.”
Napoleon admitted: “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.”
James Froude spoke of
Jesus as “the most perfect being who has ever trod the soil of this planet.”
Antony of Padua professed that “Christ is the dazzling bright start.” John Knox
confessed: “No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world
which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshiped; no other man has
been so devoutly loved.”
“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,” so said Charles Edward Jefferson. Chardin
declared that “Christ is the Alpha and Omega; the principle and the end; the
foundation stone, and the keystone; the plentitude and the plentifier.” T.S.
Elliot inscribed: “Christ came as a tiger.”
Philip Schaff famously
recorded: “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.”
Crashaw delighted as he
contemplated Jesus:
“All wonders in one sight; Eternity shut in a span; Day in
night; Heaven in earth; and God in man.” Augustine added that Christ is the
“best husband.” Eusebius exclaimed: “Christ is the divine and Heavenly Logos;
the high priest of the world; the only King of all creation; the only
Arch-prophet of the prophets of the Father.” Rolheiser professed that “Jesus is
the vein, the blood, the pulse, and the heart.” Even H.G. Wells had to
acknowledge: “I am a 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.”
Blaise Pascal observed:
“Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can
humble ourselves without despair.” Einstein adds: “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.” “An unsurpassed master of the
art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth,” writes Geza Vermes
apropos Jesus.
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me (Saint Patrick).
“Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived,” avowed
Ernest Renan. Honsell ascribed that Jesus is “rest for the weary; joy for the
sad; hope for the dreamy; light of the glad; home of the stranger; strength to
the end; refuge from danger; and Savior and friend.” Isaiah the prophet
announced that Jesus is “Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
and Prince of Peace.”
But the most important
designations given to Jesus were from the Father who declared: “Your throne O’
God is forever and ever.” Jesus as God manifested in the flesh is the
altogether lovely one.
Look unto
Jesus
Fix your eyes
on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith … (Hebrews 12:2).
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