Mahatma Gandhi - Faith Quotes

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Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

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Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.

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I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

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To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

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Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

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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.

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I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.

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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

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That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

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If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?

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If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

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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.

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Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.

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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.

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Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

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It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

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Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.

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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

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Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

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Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

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My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

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There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

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Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

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My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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