Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Sin
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Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj.
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Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God.
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No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.
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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
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My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.
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All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
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Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.
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Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
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The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.
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The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
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I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
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It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.
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Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.
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No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
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I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.
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Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
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How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
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A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
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Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.
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Hate the sin, love the sinner.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
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Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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