Gems from Gandhiji-33:

If love was not the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.

Gems from Gandhiji-32:

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men.

Gems from Gandhiji-31:

When one wants to arrive at the truth for the sake of the truth, the result is always good.

Gems from Gandhiji-30:

Controls imposed from above are always bad.

Gems from Gandhiji-29:

….It (fasting) is the last weapon in the armoury of the votary of ahimsa. When human ingenuity fails, the votary fasts. This fasting quickens the spirit of prayer, that is to say, the fasting is a spiritual act and, therefore, addressed to God. The effect of such action on the life of the people is that when the person fasting is at all known to them their sleeping conscience is awakened.…

Gems from Gandhiji-28:

When one wants to arrive at the truth for the sake of the truth, the result is always good.

Gems from Gandhiji-26:

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Gems from Gandhiji-25:

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Gems from Gandhiji-24:

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Gems from Gandhiji-23:

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Gems from Gandhiji-22:

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.

Gems from Gandhiji-21:

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Gems from Gandhiji-20:

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world – Mahatma Gandhi

Gems from Gandhiji-19:

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Gems from Gandhiji-18:

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Gems from Gandhiji-17:

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Gems from Gandhiji-16:

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Gems from Gandhiji-15:

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Gems from Gandhiji-14:

So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. AHIMSA IS THE FARTHEST LIMIT OF HUMILITY.

– Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

Gems from Gandhiji-13:

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory.

Gems from Gandhiji-12:

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Gems from Gandhiji-11:

The true connotation of humility is self-effacement….. Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Gems from Gandhiji-10:

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Gems from Gandhiji-9:

I cannot say what to preach, but I can say that a life of service and uttermost simplicity is the best preaching.

Gems from Gandhiji-8:

Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. In it, there is room for the worship of all the prophets in the world.

Gems from Gandhiji-7:

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

Gems from Gandhiji-6:

When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator.

Gems from Gandhiji-5:

Not to hurt any living is a part of Ahimsa. But it is least expression. The principle of Ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody. It is also violated by our holding on to what the world needs.

Gems from Gandhiji-4:

…I have come to the conclusion that for myself God is Truth. But two years ago, I went a step further and said Truth is God. You will see the fine distinction between the two statements, viz., That God is Truth and Truth is God. And I came to that conclusion after a continuous and relentless search after Truth which began nearly fifty years ago. … the definition – Truth is God – gives me the greatest satisfaction. And when you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is Love, i.e. non-violence, and since I believe that ultimately means and end are convertible terms, I should not hesitate to say that God is Love.

Excerpt from the article “GOD” by Gandhiji from the online book, “Selections from Gandhi”

Grateful thanks to MKGandhi.org.

Gems from Gandhiji-3:

Scientists tell us that without the presence of the cohesive force amongst the atoms that comprise this globe of ours, it would crumble to pieces and we cease to exist; and even as there is cohesive force in blind matter, so must there be in all things animate; and the name for that cohesive force among animate things is LOVE. We notice it between father and son, between brother and sister, friend and friend. But we have to learn to use that force among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is Love, there is Life; hatred leads to destruction. – Young India, May 5, 1920.