Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Devotion

• I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Simplicity, Islam

  Young India article on September 23, 1924. "My Jail Experiences". Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 29, p. 133, 1960.

• Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Dry, Action

• Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Devotion, Sole

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.45, Oxford University Press

• Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Tests, Fruit

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

• Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gita, Devotion, Hearted

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

• Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Devotion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

• Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Sun, Devotion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

• In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Order, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.37, Courier Corporation

• Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Scripture, Devotion

• The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perfection, Fruit, Bears

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