Mahatma Gandhi God Quotations [Page 2]

Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.

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

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation.

Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

It is my conviction that the root of evil is the want of a living God.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness.

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions.

I trust men only because I trust God.

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.

God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.

God is known by many names. And in the last analysis God's names were as many as human beings.

God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.

God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

God's time never stops.

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

God is not outside this earthly case of ours.

God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.

God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.

God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.

God is always the upholder of justice.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

God has made of man and woman one complete whole. In the scheme of nature, both of them are equal.

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.

God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe.

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

God cannot be realized through intellect.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

God alone knows absolute Truth.

God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.