A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.