Swami Vivekananda Quotes

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• The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. "Written", perhaps, is…
• Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you…
• If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing…
• Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
• Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
• Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not…
• Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song.…
• Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.
• Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere,…
• Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.
• Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my…
• I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as…
• I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
• If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.
• It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of…
• Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure!…
• Jesus Christ was willing to admit every good man to the family of God. It is not the man who believes a certain something, but…
• Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should…
• "None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands. "Gloria in Excelsis",…
• Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus,…

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