Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (/ˈɡɑːndi, ˈɡændi/; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world. Gandhi's birthday, 2 October, is commemorated in India as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Nonviolence. Gandhi is commonly, though not formally, considered the Father of the Nation in India, and was commonly called Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for father, papa).
Quotes:
- “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
- “Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.”
- “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 did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.”
- “Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him”
- “If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.”
- “I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.”
- “I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.”
TOP 100+ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes:
part 1: Peace
part 2: Courage and Bravery
part 3: Quotes on Love
part 4: Quotes on Life
part 5: Quotes on Christianity
part 6: Motivational Quotes
part 7: Life Lessons
part 8: Inspirational Quotes
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