Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Jesus

• Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Heart, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

• If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Way, Nazareth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1557, Manonmani Publishers

• It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Struggle, Unnecessary

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.438, Manonmani Publishers

• Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Giving Up, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Desire, Kingdoms

  Vivekananda (Swami) (1925). “Epistles”

• If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Fall, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3497, Manonmani Publishers

• "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there, within you? Cleanse the spirit, and it is there. It is already yours. How can you get what is not yours? It is yours by right. You are the heirs of immortality, sons of the Eternal Father.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.75, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Brain, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (1992). “Awakened India”

• “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Book, Blessed

  "Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda".

• The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Church, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3655, Manonmani Publishers

• Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Giving Up, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Heart, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

• I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Jesus, Character

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

• Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Philosophy, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

• Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Mean, Renunciation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3685, Manonmani Publishers

• Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3125, Manonmani Publishers

• I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Jesus, Years

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3645, Manonmani Publishers

• The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Opposites, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.151, Advaita Ashrama

• Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

• Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Loss, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

• Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Dream, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.30, editionNEXT.com

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