Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Jesus

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

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

Jesus, Excellence, Active

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

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”

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus, Good Life, World

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Christian, Spiritual, Jesus

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”

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”

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, 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

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

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”