"The Church tries to fit Christ into it,……" — Swami Vivekananda

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into… - Swami Vivekananda

"The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ."

— Swami Vivekananda

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1,363 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda has 1,363 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman…
Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and…
If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship…
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot…
Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty -…
Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen…
Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians…
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…
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…
I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that…

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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years… — Karen Armstrong
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the… — Teresa of Avila
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for… — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces… — Teresa of Avila
You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. — Sebastian Bach
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared… — William Barclay
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained… — William Barclay
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day.… — Bruce Barton

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