The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.
Hitherto I have served you as a soldier; allow me now to become a soldier to God. Let the man who is to serve you receive your donative. I am a soldier of Christ; it is not permissible for me to fight.
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.
We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.
How they treat you defines them. How you treat others defines you.