"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed"!
The above is a quote of Mahatma Gandhi.
And that which i have "seen(experienced) and heard(received)" has, and evermore continue's to increase my respect for Mahatma Gandhi, whom i now respect more than any other man who has received the breath(spirit, air) of life since i received my first breath in '43. The source of such respect being The Spirit of, and in, the quotes attributed unto him.
A few of his testimonies follow, and *=my comments=*:
"I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but the pain of it is a positive pleasure to me. Each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next"....... *="FATHER Help! ....... and HE does!=*
"TRUTH is by nature self-evident, as soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround TRUTH, TRUTH shines clear".......
"There is no GOD higher than The TRUTH".......
"Of all the animal creation of GOD, man is the only creature who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim in life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker".......
"Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul".......
“Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason”.......
"Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that Faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue".......
“The Roots of Violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles".......
“GOD forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts”.......
"True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It is Faith in GOD and living in the presence of GOD. It means Faith in a future Life, in TRUTH and Ahimsa. There prevails today a sort of apathy towards these things of The SPIRIT"....... *="Ahimsa/non-violence towards all living things=*
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics, do not know what religion is".......
"GOD has no religion".......
“I like your christ, I do not like your christians. You christians are so unlike your christ".......
"If christians would really live according to the teachings of christ, as found in the bible, all of India would be christian today”.......
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart".......
"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics, do not know what religion is".......
“Patience means self-suffering”....... *=YES! Thankfully love suffers long....... (I Corinthians 13:4)=*
"I have been a willing slave to this most exacting Master for more then half a century. His voice has been increasingly audible as years have rolled by. He has never forsaken me even in my darkest hour. He has saved me often against myself and left me not a vestige of independence. The greater the surrender to Him, the greater has been my joy"....... *=YES! A Declaration of Dependence!=*
FATHER Help!
HE DID! and HE does.......
And ultimately Mahatma Gandhi REALized a common union with others in a simple and spiritual life wherein "no man called anything his own", and Family was as it should be! "The Household of Faith" was REALized....... (Ephesians 3:15, Galatians 6:10, James 1:27)
Further quotations and testimony concerning Mahatma Gandhi can be viewed @ http://asimpleandspirituallife.blogspot.com/2011/09/earth-provides-enough-to-satisfy-every.html
Thankfully Peace IS! in spite of the dis-ease (no-peace) that is of this evil world and/or religion's way....... (John 14:27; 7:7, I John 2:15-17; 5:19, James 1:27; 4:4)
ALL Thanks and Praise Be Unto Our FATHER and GOD!
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