There is no other character in history like Jesus. As a preacher, as a doer of things, and as a philosopher, no man ever had the sweep and the vision of Jesus.
The system of ethics Jesus taught two thousand years ago was true then, has been true in every century since, and will be true forever.
Not all the investigation of chemists, not all the discoveries of explorers, not all the experience of rule, not all the historical facts that go to make up the sum of human knowledge on this day are in contradiction to one word uttered or one principle laid by Jesus.
The human experience of two thousand years shows that Jesus never made a mistake. Jesus never uttered a doctrine that was true at that time and then became obsolete. Jesus spoke the truth; He lived the truth, and truth is eternal.
No poet, no dreamer, no philosopher loved humanity with the love that Jesus bore toward all men.
Who, then, was Jesus? He could not have been merely a man. Jesus must have been what Christianity proclaims Him to be—a divine being—or He could not have been what He was. No mind but an infinite mind could have left behind those things which Jesus gave to the world as a heritage.
—Adapted from Blaise Pascal’s Pensées (Thoughts), 1658
“No man ever spoke like this Man!” – John 7:46
