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Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

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Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects Quotes

“Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person.”

“Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.”

“Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.”

“I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.”

“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”

“A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.”

“A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”

“Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.”