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Quotes About Christ's divinity

That the famous confession, uttered in the neighborhood of Cesarea Philippi, really contains in germ the doctrine of Christ's divinity, might be inferred from the simple fact that Jesus was satisfied with it; for He certainly claimed to be Son of God in a sense predicable of no mere man, even according to synoptical accounts of His teaching.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
~ Peter Kreeft
Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ's divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect.
~ George Steiner
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
~ N. T. Wright
If a sight of Christ's outward glory might give a rational assurance of His divinity, why might not an apprehension of He is spiritual glory do so too?
~ Jonathan Edwards
Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
~ beecher henry ward xvi
But," thought Durtal, "seeing that there are so many more things betwixt heaven and earth than are dreamed of in anybody's philosophy, why not believe in the Trinity? Why reject the divinity of Christ? It is no strain on one to admit the Credo quia absurdum of Saint Augustine and Tertullian and say that if the supernatural were comprehensible it would not be supernatural, and that precisely because it passes the faculties of man it is divine. "And—oh,
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.
~ C. S. Lewis
Alles, was wir mit Recht von Gott erwarten, erbitten dürfen, ist in Jesus Christus zu finden.
~ Unknown
Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.
~ 1 John 2:22