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My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.
God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
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.
The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.
The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.
Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.
Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.
I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.
A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.
It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel.
It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
There are sufficient resources on this planet to answer the needs of all, but not enough to satisfy everyone's greed.
When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts.
God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.
If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed � but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.