Mahatma Gandhi Faith Quotations

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.

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

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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 did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Whether one or many, I must declare my faith that it is better for India to discard violence altogether even for defending her borders

I claim to be an average man of 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.

I do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.

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

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'.

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.

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

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

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

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

Faith is a function of the heart....

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

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 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.

Let our first act each morning be the following resolve: I shall not fear anyone on Earth. I shall fear only God.

There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

A faith gained in strength only when people were willing to lay down their lives for it.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

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.

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.

My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.

With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.