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“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.”

World Earth Christianity Century Planets India Population China Surface Twentieth Century Fractions Persia

Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette

“Christianity in India is inextricably mixed up for the last hundred and fifty years with the British rule.”

Years Lasts Language Christianity Hundred India British Fifty English Language Englishmen British Rule

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world.”

World Dream Would Be Imagination Christianity India Islam Driven Hinduism Idle

Book:Christian Missions, Their Place in India

Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India

“It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?”

Source: Christian Missions, Their Place in India

“If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.”

Ifs Ideas Would Be Belief Christianity Middle Buddhism India Islam Bounds East Denied Middle East Confined Arabia Validity

Book:Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

“We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.”

Earth Christian Belief Christianity Democracy Thirds India Islamic Dependent Indonesia

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.”

“I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.”

Heart Reading Christ Christianity Divine My Heart India I Realized Uplifting Fourth Chapters Saviour Downtrodden

Author:Pandita Ramabai

“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.”

“I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.”

Christian Religion Left Religious Christianity Return Discovery Europe India Cease Buddhist Hinduism Priesthood

Author:Raimon Panikkar