Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
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Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
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The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.
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Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
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I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.
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The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.
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Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.
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I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
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The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.
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Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
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The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
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Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice – nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.
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Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.
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A satyagrahi has infinite patience, abundant faith in others, and ample hope.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood.
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There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.
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Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?