My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely… — 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
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
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
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide. — 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
Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are:… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great… — 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
A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. — 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
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either. — 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
Without satyagraha carried out in the proper spirit, there is no victory, no Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles. — 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
Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in… — 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
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees… — 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
Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one's own — 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
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
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
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
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
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
“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
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
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
