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Mohandas Gandhi Quotes About Spiritual

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

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Mohandas Gandhi Quotes About Life

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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The good man is the friend of all living things.

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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More Quotes by Mohandas Gandhi

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

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Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

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God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

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Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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