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Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Persist, Senses
Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Dare, Millions
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Debt, May
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Eye, Noses
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Matter, Approach

Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Satyagraha, Search For Truth

Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Mother, Children
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.65, North Atlantic Books

Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Mean, Self Confidence
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Truth is the right designation of God.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Truth Is, Designation
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.47, Courier Corporation

We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.

Mahatma Gandhi
God, Law, Knows

My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Roots, Life Is
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

Mahatma Gandhi
Would Be, Poison, Widowhood
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Mahatma Gandhi
Eating, Hinduism, Untouchability
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Gandhis India: Unity in Diversity”

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

Mahatma Gandhi
Long, Hinduism, Untouchability
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Feet, Hinduism, Admirable
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Waiting, Custodians, Prejudice
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Self, Discipline
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself.

Mahatma Gandhi
Losing, Hinduism, Danger
Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Varnashrama Dharma”

Nonviolence which to me is the glory of Hinduism, has been sought to be explained away by our people as being meant for the sanyasis only.

Mahatma Gandhi
People, Being Me, Glory

No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi
Home, Stones, Sin
Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “To the Perplexed”

The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

Mahatma Gandhi
Mean, Giving, Way
Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

Mahatma Gandhi
Way, Patient, Argument
Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.106, Orient Paperbacks

The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

Mahatma Gandhi
Heart, Hair, Sacred

Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

Mahatma Gandhi
Home, Secret, Vices
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.213, Rajpal & Sons

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

Mahatma Gandhi
Numbers, Age, Becoming
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing