Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Jesus

• 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.

• 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

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

• Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Good Life, World

• Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Excellence, Active

• 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”

• Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Jesus, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

• The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Gita, Passages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

• I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Jesus, Teaching

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

• 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

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Messages, Environment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• 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”

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