Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.