M.K Gandhi Quotes

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

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.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

Truth is the right designation of God.

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

Nonviolence or soul force does not need physical aids for its propagation of effect.

Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.

If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.

Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.