Accepting Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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