Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

Christian life means sacrifice.

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young person goes beyond desires, when a young person goes beyond greed, ambition, the longing to be powerful, the ambition to be famous, then it is something tremendously meaningful, significant.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

A religious person is a desireless person.

Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse.

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.