Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

However much I may sympathize with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. ;)

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you... then you win.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. (speaking of Jesus)

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

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

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Intolerance is itself a from of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

My trust is solely in god. And I trust men only because I trust God.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please.

Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it becomes indescribable, indefinable.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

We are merely the instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

I have been a willing slave to this most exacting Master fr more then half a century. His voice has been increasingly audible as years have rolled by. He has never forsaken me even in my darkest hour. He has saved me often against myself and left me not a vestige of independence. The greater the surrender to Him, the greater has been my joy.

I need no inspiration other then Nature's. She has never failed me yet. She mystifies me, bewilders me, sends me into ecstasies. Besides God's handiwork, does not man's fade into insignificance?

There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their own faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but the pain of it is a positive pleasure to me. Each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.