Quotes by Mohandas Gandhi

“Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.”

“To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.”

“Each one prays to God according to his own light.”

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”

“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.”

“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.”

“A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.”

“Ones own religion is after all a matter between oneself and ones Maker and no one elses.”

“All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.”

“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.”

“Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course”

“for he who is least among you all ,is the greatest”

“In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.”

“Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrims progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.”