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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Page 29

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The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

God, Trying, Feels

Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

Faith, Trying, Body

Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

Law, People, Matter

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

Two, Today, Hours

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.

God, Men, Names

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

Social service that savours of patronage is not service.

Social, Patronage, Savour

Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

Fear, Self, Righteousness

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

Lying, Struggle, Men

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Peace, Lying, Men

"The Doctrine Of The Sword". Young India, www.mkgandhi.org. August 11, 1920.

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.

Tolerance, Strain, Withstanding

I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive.

Hinduism

Mahatma Gandhi (1972). “Collected Works”

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

Looks, Look Up, Contempt

Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

Single Mom, Hatred, India

Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

Past, Men, Faults

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.83, Courier Corporation

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Courage, Peace, Sacrifice

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Motivational, Work, Quality Not Quantity

Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Young India”

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Men, Mankind, Transformed

Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.52, North Atlantic Books

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Snakes, Suffering, Way

Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.39, A&C Black

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family.

Oneness, Unity, Brotherhood

Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

God, Ocean, Years

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

Moving, Heart, Thinking

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.42, Courier Corporation

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

Freedom, Intellectual, Democracy

Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Grandchildren, Slave Owners, Facts

Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

Equality, Men, Liberty

Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

Born: October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948
Occupation: Civil rights leader

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