To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. — 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
