Jesus’ valuation of each human being is based not on
abstract egalitarian ideals, but on the overflowing love of
God, which, like a great river breaking its banks into a
parched countryside, irrigates those parts of human society
which until now had remained barren and unfruitful.

Wright, Tom (2001-01-19). Luke for Everyone (New Testament
for Everyone) (p. 131). SPCK. Kindle Edition.

C.S. Lewis

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call…