Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
