He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

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

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

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

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we revise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. 

Common Sense is the realized sense of proportion.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Morality is contraband in war. 

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation of individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.