Christ Quote by Ernest Renan

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

— Ernest Renan

“Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did…

— David Fitzgerald

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just…

— Martin Luther

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

— Ralph Adams Cram

Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the…

— Evelyn Underhill

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon…

— Charles Spurgeon

Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity…

— F. F. Bruce

The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

— F. F. Bruce

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place…

— H. G. Wells

Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and…

— Henri Nouwen

“It is a wonderful surprise that Jesus is glorified in saving us! He is exalted on the cross. The purpose of history is both…

— Bryan Wolfmueller