Religion Quotes
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.
We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.
The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.
My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.
If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.
No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.
My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.
All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.
All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.
A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.
The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.
True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.