It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil toh shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

We don't need to proselytize either by your speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Are kids such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages. 

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

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.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection. 

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.