Mahatma Gandhi

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

I 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.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

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.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

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.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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.

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.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.