Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. |
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. |
Real suffering, bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha. |
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. |
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. |
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts. |
Self-respect knows no considerations. |
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. |
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. |
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. |
Suffering has its well-defined limits. Suffering can be both wise and unwise, and when the limit is reached, to prolong it would be not unwise but the height of folly. |
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. |
The badge of the violent is his weapon, spear, sword or rifle. God is the shield of the non-violent. |
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. |
The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit. |