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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
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A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
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Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.
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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.
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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.
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The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
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Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
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Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself.
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow.
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Faith alone is the sun of life.
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Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
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To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.
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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?