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[I'll be following up on my missional church posts next week, but for now I leave you with these nuggets of wisdom below]

While replying to an amazing blog post from my friend Gina on myspace I was reminded of a quote from Mahatma Ghandi. It was: “Be the change that you want to see in the world.” As this was the only quote I knew of from Ghandi, I decided to look up some others. I figured I would share my findings with you and may they help inspire you and bring you peace:

• “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
• “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
• “Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
• “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
• “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected”
• “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
• “My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.”
• “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
• “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”
• “You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
• “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems”

Several more quotes from Ghandi can be found here: http://thinkexist.com/quotes/mahatma_gandhi/