Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

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

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.