Mahatma Gandhi - Religion Quotes

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The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

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My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

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My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.

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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.

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

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A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

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Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

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To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

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Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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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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Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

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Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.

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My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

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If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet.

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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

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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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