I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

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

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.