Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.
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Cowards can never be moral.
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If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'
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Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
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It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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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.
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
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A society organized and run on the basis of complete nonviolence would be the purest anarchy… That State is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.