H. G. Wells, speaking about great men of history, said of Jesus: “More than 1900 years later a historian like myself who doesn’t even call himself a Christian, finds the picture centring irresistibly around the life and character of this most significant man. (…) The historians test on an individual’s greatness is ‘What did he leave to grow?’ Did he start men to thinking along fresh lines with a vigour that persisted after him? By this test Jesus stands first.” – You can gauge the size of ship that has passed out of sight by the huge wake it leaves behind.

Source: Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew, 2000, London: Marshall Pickering, p.15