Mahatma Gandhi - Religion Quotes

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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

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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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If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

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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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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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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God" this appears to be the commandment in all religions.

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I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

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

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True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

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The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

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

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In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

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I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

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For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

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

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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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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

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

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

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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

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