Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.
Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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.
I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.
The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.
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?
I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.
The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.
I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.
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.'