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Religion Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

333 Religion quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Religion is described as a glue that should bind people, not separate them. Gandhi stresses that true faith needs soul‑force and non‑violence, not just intellectual study. He also reminds us that each person carries a unique religion, and that seeing others’ mistakes can create kinship.

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Faith alone is the sun of life.

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My religion has no geographical limits.

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There's no God higher than truth.

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Faith is the function of the heart.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

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The one religion is beyond all speech.

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Hinduism is not a codified religion.

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God has no religion.

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The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

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There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

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A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

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My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

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My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

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Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.

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It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

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Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to…

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The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given…

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True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

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Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

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Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only…

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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so…

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In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To…

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...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public…

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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It…

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is…

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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith…

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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment.…

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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self.…

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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if…

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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But…

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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and…

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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we…

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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings…

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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,…

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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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Faith is a function of the heart…

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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.