Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

There is no god higher than truth.

It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

My religion teaches me to love all equally.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

My religion has no geographical limits.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.