Mahatma Gandhi Men Quotations [Page 4]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I trust men only because I trust God.

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

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

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 impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

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

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.

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

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

That which impels man to do the right thing is God.

The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.