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Heart Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

102 Heart quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi sees the heart as a place to clean away hatred and to keep hope alive, even when the world feels violent. He says prayer from the heart can do things no other effort can. He also believes that a sincere appeal to the heart, especially from a woman, can move a nation.

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True beauty consists of purity of heart.

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“can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.”

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To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

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God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.

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Religion is not what is grasped by the brain, but a heart grasp.

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Faith is the function of the heart.

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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and…

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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.

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My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

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He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

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The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood.

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The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.

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I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.

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The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the…

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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence…

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Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped…

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I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight…

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It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and…

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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is…

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If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then…

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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one…

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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence…

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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if…

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... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to…

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The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully…

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Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like…

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In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war]…

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Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart…

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Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,…

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God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

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Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

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Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion.

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God to be God must rule the heart and transform it.

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True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

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By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

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To give one's heart is to give all.

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I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.