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
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.
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
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.
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.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
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.
The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.
Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.
Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.
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.
Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.