Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The whole world of mankind is divided into these two sorts, those that are God's visible people; and those that are of the visible kingdom of Satan.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it's true that there's a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels. A few years ago, I was convinced of that - I thought I truly was possessed by the devil. I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, 'Yeah, I can relate to that. I really wish I knew why I've done some of the things I've done over the years. I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think it is - Satan.”

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.