Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.
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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
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India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory.
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My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.
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I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
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Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.
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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.
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Life is one indivisible whole.
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I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.
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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.
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Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace.
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God never occurs to you in person but always in action.
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A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
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A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
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We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment. Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions. It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength.