It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God’s grace, no one is beyond redemption.
True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.
Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.
Truth is superior to man s wisdom.
In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being “not successful.” He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.
I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
Few men are wantonly wicked.
One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.
If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.
I believe all war to be wholly wrong.
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one’s faith in man and God, even one’s own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.
My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.