"Religion should be dearer than life itself."
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"Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares."
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"A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement."
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"Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been."
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"Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago."
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"The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me."
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"My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time."
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"Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise."
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"True prayer is not a prelude to inaction."
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"Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula."
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"Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion."
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"Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer."
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"A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance."
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"It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man."
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"Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears."
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"Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India."
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"For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also."
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"The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West."
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"Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be."
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"Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy."
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