"I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart."
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"No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will."
"In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt."
"If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth."
"When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people."
"My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called."
"It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart."
"Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion."
"There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at."
"Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support."
"He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart."
"It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God."
"I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience."
"Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp."
"I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions."
"Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth."
"Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure."
"Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak."
"Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart."
"... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself."