I saw that nations like individuals could only be made through the agony of the Cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself.
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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.Mohandas Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.
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