Collected Meditations
Showing 209 quotesI do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.— Mahatma Gandhi
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.— Mahatma Gandhi
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.— Mahatma Gandhi
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.— Mahatma Gandhi
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.— Mahatma Gandhi
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.— Mahatma Gandhi
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.— Mahatma Gandhi
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.— Mahatma Gandhi
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.— Mahatma Gandhi
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.— Mahatma Gandhi