Gandhiana-49:

Men often become what they believe themselves to be.  If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it.  But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I did not have it at the beginning.

Gandhiana-48:

No perfect democracy is possible without perfect non-violence at the back of it.

Gandhiana-47:

Scriptures cannot transcend reason and truth. They are intended to purify reason and illuminate truth. 

Gandhiana-46:

 “It is not the Hindu religion which I certainly prize above all religions, but the religion which transcends Hinduism which changes one's very nature, which binds one indissolubly to the truth within and which ever purifies. It is the permanent element in human nature which counts no cost too great in order to find full expression and which leaves the soul utterly restless until it has found itself, known its Maker and appreciated the true correspondence between the Maker and itself.” – Gandhi in Young India, 1920.

Grateful thanks to “Gandhi, Religion and Multiculturalism : An Appraisal” by Siby K. Joseph

Gandhiana-45:

“I hold that it is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religion is a sacred duty.. I regard my study and reverence for Bible, the Koran and the other scriptures to be wholly consistent with my claim to be a staunch sanatani Hindu.. My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for and my faith in the Hindu scriptures. They have broadened my view of life. They have enabled me to understand more clearly many an obscure passage in the Hindu scriptures.”  -  Gandhiji in Young India

Gandhiana-44:

In January, 1935, Dr. S.Radhakrishnan places three questions before Gandhi:

1. What is your religion?

2. How are you led to it?

3. What is its bearing on social life?

The answers to these constitutes the essence of Gandhi's understanding of religion.

“My religion is Hinduism which, for me, is religion of humanity and includes the best of all the religions known to me...I am being led to my religion through Truth and Non-violence, i.e. Love in the broadest sense. I often describe my religion as the religion of Truth, of late, instead of saying God is Truth, I have been saying Truth is God, in order more fully to define my religion.. Nowadays nothing so completely describes my God as Truth..Denial of Truth we have not known. The most ignorant among mankind have some truth in them. We are all sparks of Truth. The sum total of this spark is indescribable, as yet unkown Truth, which is God. I am being daily led nearer to it by constant prayer...To be true to such religion one has to lose oneself in continuous and continuing service of all life. Realisation of Truth is impossible without a complete merging of oneself in and identification with this limitless ocean of life. Hence, for me there is no escape from social service; there is no happiness on earth beyond or apart from it..Social service here must be taken to include every department of life. In this scheme, there is nothing low, nothing high. For, all is one, though we seem to be many.”

Grateful thanks to “Gandhi, Religion and Multiculturalism : An Appraisal” by Siby K. Joseph 

Gandhiana-44:

The future depends on what we do today.

Gandhiana-43:

Many people, especially, ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time.  If you are right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth 

Gandhiana-42:

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Gandhiana-41:

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.