"'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane."
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"There is no god greater than truth."
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"A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty."
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"The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem."
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"If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction."
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"I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it."
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"The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose."
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"To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record."
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"To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction."
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"I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it."
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"True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations."
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"A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb."
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"The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all."
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"The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions."
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"Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth."
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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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"So far as I can see, the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained for ages. There used to be so-called laws of war, which made it tolerable. Now we know the truth. War knows no law except that of might. The atomic bomb brought an empty victory but it resulted for the time being in destroying the soul of Japan. What has happened to the soul of the destroying nation is yet too early to see."
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"[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother was doing - I remember when my mother graduated from beauty college, so I was about 5, and so I guess she was about 21. And I just remember being there, taking the pictures and seeing her get her diploma and everything. But she was doing hair for many years. during that time, she kind of started to discover or tap into her religious studies. It was around the time I was starting to go through puberty and hitting, like, 12, 13."
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"As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings, they start drawing these lines and creating confines in their life to live within certain lines."
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"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."
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