Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.
Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat.
A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.
A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.
A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.
When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party.
When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.
The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.
The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.