The Divine




» That which impels man to do the right thing is God. XXVI-571


» Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith. T-7-95


» The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God. MM-302


» The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields. XXV-450


» The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too. T-3-219


» The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents. MM-114


» The Law and the Lawgiver are one. T-2-313


» The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name. T-3-250


» The Law which governs all life is God. T-2-313


» The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God. T-4-257


» The power we call God defies description. TIG-45


» There are innumerable definitions of God because His manifestations are innumerable. MM-42


» There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal. T-3-335


» There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita. T-2-69


» There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God. T-7-41


» The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them. T-4-29


» The sum of all that lives is God. XXVI-571


» The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God but we are of God even as a little drop of water is of the ocean. TIG-92


» The sum total of karma is God. XXVI-571


» The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal. TIG-84


» The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God. T-5-242


» The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism. T-3-181


» This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason. MM-54


» This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs. XX-137


» Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all. T-3-144


» Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam. T-2-341


» To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages. T-2-63


» To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God. T-5-93


» To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence. T-3-195


» To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God. XXVI-373


» Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power–Truth. T-7-363


» Truth is the right designation of God. TIG-21


» Waiting on God means increasing purity. XXVI-515


» We do not know the laws of God, nor their working. T-3-250


» What is impossible with man is child’s play with God. T-3-137


» When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is, nonviolence. T-3-144


» When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be. MM-308


» Where love is, there God is also. MM-418


» Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image? T-2-261


» Without living Truth, God is nowhere. T-8-270


» Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible. MM-276

» You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher. T-5-149


» You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless. T-7-273


» You will not pit one word of God against another word of God. T-4-138

» Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother’s affection without needing any demonstration. TIG-92


» Shraddha means self–confidence and self–confidence means faith in God. XXV-88


» Surely, conscience is but a poor and laborious paraphrase of the simple combination of three letters called God. XXVI-224


» Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures’ hearts. T-4-79


» Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God. XXV-19



» Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind. TIG-45


» Man can only describe God in his own poor language. TIG-45


» Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God. T-7-73


» Man should earnestly desire the well – being of all God’s creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so. MM-434


» No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa. T-7-73


» 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. MM-394


» The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone. T-2-302


» When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God. T-8-108


» When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party. T-2-150


» A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious’ at the same time. MM-137


» A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God. XXV-88


» A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope. XXV-188


» A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. MM-115


» A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth. XXV-188


» A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man. T-2-369


» A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat. T-5-16


» 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. T-2-377


» One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God. T-5-71


» Often does good come out of evil. But that is God’s, not man’s plan. TIG-141


» Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support. TIG-44


» Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner. T-7-50


» Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within. TIG-55


» Punishment is God’s. He alone is the infallible Judge. T-4-299


» Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms. XXVI-28


» Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony. T-2-212


» Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked. T-8-51


» Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth. XXV-489


» Search for Truth is search for God. Truth is God. God is because Truth is. XXV-489