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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Faith, Christian
As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Faith, Hope
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Wise, Bad Ass
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Believe, Men
Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Darkness, Spirituality
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Flower, Weather
"The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words".

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Essence, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Prayer, Presence Of God
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.92, Rajpal & Sons

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Faith, Light
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Religious, Motherhood
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mahatma Gandhi
Birthday, Faith, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

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

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Running, Challenges
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Motivational, Faith
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.198, Courier Corporation

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual
Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.405, Jaico Publishing House

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Patience, Time
Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Peace, Violence

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.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Trying, Body
Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Truth, Moral Growth
Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, World, Made

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Faith, Religion
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Heart, Thinking
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Good Faith, Honour
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

Mahatma Gandhi
Faith, Effort, Followers
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.223, Tara Publishing