Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Christ

• I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Christian

  As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

• If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Christian, Would Be

• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

• The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Islam, Christianity

• Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Memories

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

• It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Believe, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

• Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Mouths, Christianity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

• Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Jesus, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.41, A&C Black

• I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian Love, Islam, Christianity

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.238, Vintage

• I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christianity, Negation, Western

  Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”

• I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Christian, Christ

• Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Twelve, Christianity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

• The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Messages, Environment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Faces, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.187, Courier Corporation

• I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Christ

• The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Like You, Christ

• If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Would Be, World

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