If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.
Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races.
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one’s capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon.
It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.
To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.
The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.
Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.
Do not believe in telling people of one’s faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.
It is nature’s kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.
It’s a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
I like their Christ, but I don’t like their Christians.