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
A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each… — 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
Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. — 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
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation. — 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
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
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. — 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
A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is… — 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
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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
For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either. — 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
