Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

I trust men only because I trust God.

I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

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.