These quotations are from Napolean Bonaparte when he was imprisoned on
St. Helena Island, surprisingly enough.
"I think I understand somewhat of human nature and I tell you all
these were men, and I am a man, but not one is like Him; Jesus Christ was more
than a man. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded great empires;
but upon what did the creations of our genius depend?
Upon force.
Jesus alone founded his empire upon love, and to this very day millions
would die for Him." and The Gospel is no mere book but a living creature,
with a vigor, a power, which conquers all that opposes it.
Here lies the Book of Books upon the table. I do not tire of reading it,
and do so daily with equal pleasure. The soul, charmed with the beauty of the
Gospel, is no longer its own: God possesses it entirely. He directs its
thoughts and faculties; it is His.
What a proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ! Yet in this absolute
sovereignty He has but one aim - the spiritual perfection of the individual,
the purification of his conscience, his union with what is true, the salvation
of the soul.
Men wonder at the conquests of Alexander, but here is a conqueror who
draws men to Himself for their highest good; who unites to Himself,
incorporates into Himself, not a nation, but the whole human race."
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