KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Virchand Gandhi Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Virchand Gandhi

Showing 1-10 of 10 Quotes by Virchand Gandhi

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Jainism has two ways of looking at things: one called Dravyarthekaraya and the other Paryayartheka Noya. According to the Dravyarthekaraya view the universe is without beginning and end, but according to the Paryayartheka view we have creation and destruction at every moment.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.

~Virchand Gandhi

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Educator

Born: August 25th, 1864

Links

Find Virchand Gandhi on Amazon

Related Authors

John W. Gardner
Temple Grandin
Timothy Leary
Horace Mann
Benjamin E. Mays
Maria Montessori
Morrie Schwartz
Booker T. Washington

Popular Authors

Erma Bombeck Agatha Christie Marie Curie W. C. Fields Milton Friedman Steve Martin Joel Osteen John D. Rockefeller

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Future Imagination Leadership Relationship Respect Society Time Trust