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Speech Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents…
- Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
- The one religion is beyond all speech.
- The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.
- I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see…
- Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.
- We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our…
- Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will…
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