Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. — 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