Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Christianity

• 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.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Islam, Christianity

• 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”

• For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Imagination, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

• I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Buddhism, Religion, Islam

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.104, Rajpal & Sons

• 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”

• 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”

• Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, India, Fifty

• 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

• It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Islam, Christianity

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.113, Tara Publishing

• It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Godly, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1957). “Christian Missions, Their Place in India”

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