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Mahadev Govind Ranade
11 quotes
“We must bear our cross…not because it is sweet to suffer, but because the pain and suffering are as nothing compared with the greatness of the issues involved.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What obstacle is there apart from the religious one. There is plenty to do in the world without it.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the land of religion, Be it be for good or for evil, we cannot do without religion. Religious thoughts are in our blood. If we try to flee from it, it will pursue us.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are but artless folk and not expert in rhythm, time, and tune, but that does not matter. He for whom we sing our hymns understands them all, and he pays no attention to our deficiencies of execution.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the love that in Christian lands circles round the life of death of Christ Jesus has been in India freely poured upon the intense realization of the every day presence of the Supreme God in the heart in a way more convincing than eyes or ears or the sense of touch can realize. This constitutes the glory of the saints and it is a possession which is treasured by our people, high and low, men and women, as a solace in life beyond value.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have above all to learn what is to bear and forbear-to bear ridicule, insults, even personal injuries at times, and forebear from returning abuse for abuse. In the words of the Prophet of Nazareth, we have to take up the cross, not because it is pleasant to be persecuted, but because the pain and injury are as nothing by the side of the principle for which they are endured.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I profess implicit faith in two articles of my creed. This country of ours is the true land of promise. This race of ours is the chosen race.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You cannot be liberal by halves. You cannot be liberal in politics and conservative in religion. The heart and the head must go together. You cannot cultivate your intellect, enrich your mind, enlarge the sphere of your political rights and privileges, and at the same time keep your hearts closed and cramped. It is an idle dream to expect men to remain enchained and enshackled in their own superstition and social evils, while they are struggling hard to win rights and privileges from their rulers. Before long these vain dreamers will find their dreams lost.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dreary alternative of agnosticism, which the young students are taught to accept as the final word of science on the grave mysteries of life and thought, and man’s hopes of personal communion with God are laughed away to make room for an inane faith in evolution and the law of collective development and progress....Hindu students especially need the strengthening influence which faith in God, and in Conscience as His voice in the human heart alone, can give. The national mind can not live in agnosticism. The experiment was tried once on a large scale by the greatest moral teacher of this or any other age. The failure of Buddhism is a warning that such teaching can have no hold on the national thought.”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The preamble to the Regulation says that women were employed wholesale to entice and take away the wives or female children for purposes of prostitution, and it was common practice among husbands and fathers to desert their families and children. Public conscience there was none, and in the absence of conscience it was futile to expect moral indignation against the social wrongs. Indeed the Brahmins were engaged in defending every wrong for the simple reason that they lived on them. They defended Untouchability which condemned millions to the lot of the helot. They defended caste, they defended female child marriage and they defended enforced widowhood—the two great props of the Caste system. They defended the burning of widows, and they defended the social system of graded inequality with its rule of hypergamy which led the Rajputs to kill in their thousands the daughters that were born to them. What shames! What wrongs! Can such a Society show its face before civilized nations? Can such a society hope to survive?”
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In support of the Regulation (VII of 1819) to put a stop to this moral degeneracy such were the questions which Ranade asked. He concluded that on only one condition it could be saved—namely, rigorous social reform. Quo…