There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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.
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.
Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
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