The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.