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Spirituality Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

52 Spirituality quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi reminds us that big goals need more than clever ideas; they require the force of the soul. He sees all people as sharing one soul, and believes that true culture lives in the heart. He also says that temple visits clean the soul and that living things lift our spirits.

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Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

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What is faith if it is not translated into action?

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The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

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All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

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The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

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Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

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Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

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Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the…

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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our…

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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

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The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

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A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul.

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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

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A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

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At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous…

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Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which…

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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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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself…

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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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Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a…

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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the…

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Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of…

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

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Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact…

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Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

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When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

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Temple going is for the purification of the soul.

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

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My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

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In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

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I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

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My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

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Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will…

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

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.”

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

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.