“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God, that is Truth, is an uncertainty.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read
sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others'
religions as we would have them to respect our own, a friendly study of the
world's religions is a sacred duty.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“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.
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“When your intellect, once perverted by listening to all manner of arguments, is totally absorbed in the contemplation of God, you will then attain yoga. When a person is firmly established in samadhi — samadhi means fixing the mind on God — he is filled with ecstatic love and, therefore, can be completely indifferent to this world.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The face of Truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“The people are like a flock of sheep, following where leaders lead them.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
