Mahatma Gandhi - Religion Quotes

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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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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

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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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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

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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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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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My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

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About this time, I heard of a well known Hindu having been converted to Christianity. It was the talk of the town that, when he was baptized, he had to eat beef and drink liquor, that he also had to change his clothes, and that thenceforth he began to go about in European costume including a hat. These things got on my nerves. Surely, thought I, a religion that compelled one to eat beef, drink liquor, and change one's own clothes did not deserve the name. I also heard that the new convert had already begun abusing the religion of his ancestors, their customs and their country. All these things created in me a dislike for Christianity.

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My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

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

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Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

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

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I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

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The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

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

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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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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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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

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

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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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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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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.

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

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

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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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