Mahatma Gandhi Light Quotations

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

... in the midst of death life persists ...

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.

The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

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

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

The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.