“Religion should be dearer than life itself.”
Source: The Way to Communal Harmony
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Famous Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Religion taught us to return good for evil.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: How to Serve the Cow
“A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.”
Source: Collected Works
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.”
Source: Young India
“Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.”
Source: My Picture of Free India
“Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
Source: Collected Works
Source: To the Protagonists of Pakistan
Source: All Religions are True
Source: All Religions are True
“The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.”
Source: My Theory of Trusteeship
“The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.”
“True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.”
“To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.”
“It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.”
Source: Young India, 1927-1928
“'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
Source: All Religions are True
“I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.”
Source: Collected Works: (1917:0ct.-1918:Jul.)
Source: Collected Works
Source: Volume of prefaces
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.”
Source: All Religions are True
“My religion has no geographical limits.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Gandhi on Nehru
Source: The Good Life
“My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: India of My Dreams
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
Source: Communal Unity
Source: Collected Works
Source: Collected Works
“The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
Source: Collected Works
“Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.”
“The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.”
“True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
Source: Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani
Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings