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
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. — 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
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith. — 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
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
Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation. — 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
With every true friendship we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. Thought by thought… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If… — 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
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God did not bear the cross only 1900 years ago, but he bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face… In… — 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
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
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
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent. — 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
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth. — 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
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
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of… — 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
