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Anonymous poem.
If our greatest need had been information, God would of sent us an educator.
If our greatest need had been money, God would of sent us an economist.
If our greatest need had been technology, God would of sent us a scientist.
If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would of sent us an entertainer.
But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a saviour.
God the Father
"This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him."
C.S.Lewis (University lecture & author)
"Either this man was, 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."
C.H.Spurgeon
"I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need."
('Einstein - a life', D. Brian, Wiley, 1996, p. 186)
No scientist has the right to dismiss Christian belief today as irrelevant, anymore than Einstein who, although he did not believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, nevertheless stated
'"Jesus is too colossal a figure for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life'"
H.G.Wells
"Christ is the most unique person in history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless teacher of Nazareth."
Unknown
"On Christ the solid rock I stand, all other rocks are shamrocks."
Napoleon (French emperor)
"If Socrates would enter the room, we should rise and do him honour. But if Jesus Christ came into the room, we should fall down on our knees and worship Him."
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself founded empires upon force, but Jesus founded on on love with the result that millions would die for Him. I tell you all these are men, and I am a man. None else is like Him - Jesus Christ was more than man."
"Between Jesus and whomesoever else in the world, there is no possible comparison"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The name of Jesus is not so much written as plowed into the history of the world."
Rabbi Stephen Wise
"You will find that he is divinely human. It is no mean joy to us of the house of Israel to recognise, to honour and to cherish among our brethren, Jesus the Jew, who has influenced the world more than any other man."
Renan (Leading French sceptic)
"Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.....He is in every respect unique and nothing can be compared with Him."
Rousseau (French opponent of Christianity)
"If the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Jesus Christ are those of a God."
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