Swami Vivekananda Quotes About 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 heart's blood!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Heart, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

• 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 else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Way, Nazareth

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1557, Manonmani Publishers

• 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 his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

• 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, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Struggle, Unnecessary

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.438, Manonmani Publishers

• Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Giving Up, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

• 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 understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Desire, Kingdoms

  Vivekananda (Swami) (1925). “Epistles”

• "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there, within you? Cleanse the spirit, and it is there. It is already yours. How can you get what is not yours? It is yours by right. You are the heirs of immortality, sons of the Eternal Father.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.75, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

• You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Brain, Way

  Swami Vivekananda (1992). “Awakened India”

• If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Fall, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3497, Manonmani Publishers

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Church, Trying

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• 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, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3655, Manonmani Publishers

• Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can "see the Father", as did Jesus.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Giving Up, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Book, Blessed

  "Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda".

• 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 not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Heart, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Jesus, Character

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.138, Advaita Ashrama

• 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 be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret".

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Philosophy, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

• Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Mean, Renunciation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3685, Manonmani Publishers

• Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Christ

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3201, Manonmani Publishers

• Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.473, Manonmani Publishers

• 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 the man who does the will of the Father in heaven, who is right. On this basis-being right and doing right-the whole world can unite.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Father, Believe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2257, Manonmani Publishers

• The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Imperfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3095, Manonmani Publishers

• Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Giving Up, Heaven

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

• "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", "Glory unto God in the highest", and unto men that deserve, but not to such an undeserving one like me. Here "the servant is not worthy of the hire"; and a Fakir, especially, has no right to any praise whatsoever, for would you praise your servant for simply doing his duty?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Men, Hands

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