"To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages."
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"Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration."
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"Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth."
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"A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God."
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"All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree."
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"Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety."
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"Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure."
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"Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak."
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"Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity."
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"It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples."
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"Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God."
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"A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship."
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"Buddhism in one long prayer."
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"A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer."
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"A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought."
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"Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world."
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"A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance."
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"Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent."
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"If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence."
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"The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker."
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