Mahatma Gandhi God Quotations [Page 2]

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I trust men only because I trust God.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 fast is a matter between God and myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Meditation is waiting on God.

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

Man alone is made in the image of God.

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

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms.

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