Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

Today, as it was 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of God is within each of us. It is not within a church, a temple, a mosque or synagogue.

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

God is always the upholder of justice.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.