Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.
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Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
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Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing.
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A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.
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That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.
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The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status.
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Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.
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Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.
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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."
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We stand on the threshold of a twilight-whether morning or evening we do not know. One is followed by the night, the other heralds the dawn.
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Truth is the right designation of God.
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But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
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I may have become Christian, were it not for Christians.
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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
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A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
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The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.
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Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
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People become what they expect themselves to become.
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Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.
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There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.