"Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one."
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"The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought."
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"Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women."
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"I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy."
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"Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him."
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"Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image."
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"The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need.""
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"Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms."
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"Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?"
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"Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side."
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"We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself."
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"I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity."
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"Love is the subtlest force in the world."
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"A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber."
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"You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil."
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"God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself."
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"What barrier is there that love cannot break?"
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"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
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"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
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"It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome."
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