God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.