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.

God has no religion.

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.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

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

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

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

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

Without living Truth, God is nowhere.

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

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

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

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

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.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

God is Truth, Truth is God.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

There is no god higher than truth.

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

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

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

If you don't ask, you don't get it

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

There is no god greater than truth.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend

I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

God is not in strength but in truth.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.

... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.

God alone is immortal, imperishable.

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

God alone knows absolute Truth.

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

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 cannot be realized through intellect.

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

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

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

God has His own way of choosing His instruments.

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

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

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

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

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

God is the shield of the nonviolent.

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

God is always the upholder of justice.

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

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

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

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

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 in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us.

God is not outside this earthly case of ours.

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

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

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

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

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

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

God's time never stops.

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

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

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