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God Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

269 God quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Seeing God in the next person shows up as a theme that calls for humility and service. The quotes say that man should be a servant of creation, not its master, and that God can appear as simple as a loaf of bread for someone who is hungry. They also note that many people have many ideas of God.

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Where love is, there God is also.

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Waiting on God means increasing purity.

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God is not in strength but in truth.

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Man alone is made in the image of God.

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Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

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God alone is immortal, imperishable.

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I trust men only because I trust God.

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God's time never stops.

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That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

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Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

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God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

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Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

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God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

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Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

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God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

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I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the…

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God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

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God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than…

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God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside…

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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter…

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Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know…

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I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one…

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All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and…

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Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people…

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My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my…

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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest…

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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of…

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.…

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God is the shield of the nonviolent.

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There's no God higher than truth.

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God is Truth, Truth is God.

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The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

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The sum of all that lives is God.

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There is no god greater than truth.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.