Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

We eat, drink, and sleep religion, but we do not do good.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

The worst that one can say of the Christian clergyman today is that he actually believes what he teaches.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.

I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing. Because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.