When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

There is no god greater than truth.