Did Gandhi Say This About Christians?

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

~ Indian philosopher Bara Dada, quoted in the mid-1920s 

Did Gandhi Say This About Christians?

"I like your Christ, but not your Christianity."

Harvard University newspaper The Harvard Crimson, 1927, uses the quote confusingly, as though it might be a paraphrase from a Swarthmore College philosophy professor named J.H. Holmes:

"I like your Christ, but not your Christianity." In these words of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. J.H. Holmes summed up the Indian leader's view of Christianity in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Dr. Holmes, professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College and a member of the Society of Friends, has just completed a tour around the world, during which he spent some time in India. He had several opportunities of conversing with Gandhi. He was present at the meeting of the All-Indian Congress and had the honor of being the only westerner ever allowed to speak from their platform.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-gandhi-say-this-about-christians/

"Do what you love"

 "Do what you love, and put your whole heart into it, and then just have fun."

~ Tim Cook, Apple CEO

"The line separating good and evil passes . . . through every human heart."

 Rebecca McLaughlin, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion, 2019, p. 213.

quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

My thoughts are not all bad: many are good and kind and true. But like a bag of flour infested by maggots, no part of me is pure. This dawned on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as he was lying on rotting straw in a Soviet gulag: 

"Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either--but right through every human heart.”3 

This realization leaves us with another problem: all our relationships hinge, to some extent, on hiding.

3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, trans. Harry Willetts, vol. 3 (New York: Basic Books, 1997), 615.

"This is the path to heaven"

On Reading St. Francis de Sales’ Introduction to the Devout Life:

One phrase from it really stuck with me. He wrote, “Say frequently in the midst of your contradictions, ‘This is the path to heaven.'”

https://aleteia.org/2023/01/23/st-francis-de-sales-6-words-to-hold-onto-when-life-is-really-hard/amp/

“I swore never to be silent . . . "

 quote from Elie Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: 

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

A Wise Woman

 "A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy,
a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."

~ Maya Angelou

Bruce Lee on Goals

 “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

 - Bruce Lee

Abraham Lincoln's praise for the Bible

 "In regards to The Great Book, I have but to say: it is the best gift God has given to man.  All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.  But for it we could not know right from wrong.  All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it."

~ Abraham Lincoln

St. Augustine’s words from his Confessions

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” 

 St. Augustine, Confessions

Billy Graham’s Unto the Hills

“God wants us to long for Him because it is in that longing that we are fulfilled and overwhelmed by God and the reflection of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in our lives.

We are never more fulfilled than when our longing for God is met by His presence in our lives.”

Billy Graham, Unto the Hills

Thomas Hobbes quotes

 “God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind that I'll never die".”

~ Thomas Hobbes

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“Life is nasty, brutish, and short”

~ Thomas Hobbes

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“Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark”

~ Thomas Hobbes

Bill Watterson quotes

“God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die.”

~ Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes

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“I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. 

If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. 

And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.”

~ Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

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“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.

What mood is that?

Last-minute panic.”

~ Bill Watterson, author of Calvin and Hobbes