"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality"
- Mahatma Gandhi
About this Quote
Mahatma Gandhi's quote talks to the importance of reason and morality in spiritual teaching. He is recommending that any religious teaching that does not appeal to factor and remains in dispute with morality should be turned down. This indicates that faiths ought to be based on reasonable idea and should not contradict ethical concepts. Gandhi's quote is a reminder that faith should be utilized to promote peace and understanding, not to justify immoral behavior. It also recommends that faiths need to be based on proof and sensible thinking, instead of on blind faith. By declining any spiritual teaching that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality, Gandhi is promoting for a more rational and moral method to religious beliefs. He is encouraging individuals to think seriously about their faiths and to guarantee that they remain in line with morality and reason.
This quote is written / told by Mahatma Gandhi between October 2, 1869 and January 30, 1948. He was a famous Leader from India.
The author also have 160 other quotes.
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"
"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost"
"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"
"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself"
"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions"
"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way"
"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"