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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. -- Julien Benda
Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man. -- Paul Verhoeven
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history. -- John Shelby Spong
Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola. -- Robert Shea
God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world. -- Sheri L. Dew
Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy. -- Tim Wise
Stephen Baldwin believes that now we're in a particular time in the world's history where it is time that people stand up for Jesus. That people get more aggressive and radical how they communicate with our culture about Jesus. -- Stephen Baldwin
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords? -- John Clayton
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption. -- Josh McDowell
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has? -- J. C. Ryle
It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ performed, without taking pleasure in it, while, on the other hand, there is nothing so interesting in the life and history of any other individual but what by hearing or reading it time and time again we become tired of it. -- Heber J. Grant
The only figure in history who endures is Jesus. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down! -- Loren Cunningham
There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me! -- Simon Bolivar
The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history. -- Karl Barth
For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history. -- Joseph Alleine
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. -- Ralph Abernathy
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience. -- Nicky Gumbel
I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history. -- George Bancroft
Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries. -- Ray Comfort
Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ. -- Chuck Smith
In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus -- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history? -- Gary North
One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end. -- John Piper
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that. -- Alistair Begg
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said! -- John Piper
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him. -- Billy Graham
Jesus stands absolutely alone in history; in teaching, in example, in character, an exception, a marvel, and He is Himself the evidence of Christianity. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant. -- Max Lucado
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin. -- Kevin DeYoung
It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch? -- John Rzeznik
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. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture. -- Stephen Colbert
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture." -- Stephen Colbert

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