Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood, He owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

He sins against this life, who slights the next.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

The nature of what the Divine notices about you is completely different from the nature of what you do to get noticed.

Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

Meditation means ultimate freedom within you.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!

Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That's exactly the meaning of the word 'ecstasy': to stand out. To stand out of the mind makes you ecstatic, brings bliss to you. And great intelligence is released. When you are identified with the mind you cannot be very intelligent because you become identified with an instrument, you become confined by the instrument and its limitations. And you are unlimited - you are consciousness.

I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.

Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.