Religious Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

There is no god greater than truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or…

— Mahatma Gandhi

So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

— Mahatma Gandhi