Indian independence activist and leader who played a key role in the peaceful resistance movement against British colonial rule
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Action expresses priorities.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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.
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.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.