Mahatma Gandhi God Quotations

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.

God has no religion.

You will not pit one word of God against another word of God.

You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.

Without living Truth, God is nowhere.

Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?

When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

Truth is the right designation of God.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God.

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

The sum total of karma is God.

The sum of all that lives is God.

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

The power we call God defies description.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

The Law which governs all life is God.

The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields.

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.

A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.

A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so.

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind.

Man alone is made in the image of God.

Nonviolence is an attribute of the Almighty whose ways of fulfilling Himself are inscrutable.

Meditation is waiting on God.

A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man.

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

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.

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.

Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

Fight if you must on the path of righteousness and God will be with you.

Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.