Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Where love is, there God is also.
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
