Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

The power we call God defies description.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth.

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.

We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

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