God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.
Mahatma GandhiOne needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma GandhiWe 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.
Mahatma GandhiTruth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.
Mahatma GandhiThe movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.
Mahatma GandhiThe principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
Mahatma GandhiThe unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
Mahatma GandhiMy dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.
Mahatma GandhiThe man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
Mahatma GandhiNo religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.
Mahatma GandhiNonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
Mahatma GandhiMy only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.
Mahatma GandhiSatyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.
Mahatma GandhiWhen anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
Mahatma GandhiThere is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.
Mahatma GandhiTruth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma GandhiFaith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
Mahatma GandhiSeek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.
Mahatma GandhiAt the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves
Mahatma GandhiA bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.
Mahatma GandhiI do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.
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