Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
Source: India of My Dreams
“The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.”
Source: Young India
“When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.”
Source: Collected Works
“A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.”
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.”
Source: The Indian States' Problem
“Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.”
“Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.”
Source: Young India, 1924-1926
“Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.”
“Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
“Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.”
Source: Collected Works
“Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.”
Source: Collected Works
“Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.”
Source: Communal Unity
Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
Source: Collected Works
Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings
“The Law and the Lawgiver are one.”
Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“The Law which governs all life is God.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.”
Source: Collected Works
“The power we call God defies description.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: A Gandhi Reader
“There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.”
“The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.”
Source: Collected Works
“The sum total of karma is God.”
Source: Collected Works
“The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.”
Source: All Religions are True
“This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Young India: 1919-1922
“Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
Source: Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought
Source: All Religions are True
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi