Mahatma Gandhi - Faith Quotes

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Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.

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Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.

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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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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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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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We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

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Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

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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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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

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A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

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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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Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

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My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.

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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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Non-violence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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

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Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

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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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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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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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The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwara of Hindus. Even as there are numerous names of God in Hinduism, there are as many names of God in Islam. The names do not indicate individuality but attributes, and little man had tried in his humble way to describe mighty God by giving Him attributes, though He is above all attributes, Indescribable, Inconceivable, Immeasurable. Living faith in this God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind. It also means equal respect for all religions.

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

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He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

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

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