Forty Gems of Beauty — Page 119
119 The truth is that the human heart is the central repository of righteousness, the fountainhead and source of all virtuous deeds. If the heart is in good shape, the activity of the hands and the feet and the tongue and the eyes also become healthy. But if the heart is filthy then all the deeds of man smell of stench and filth. Even the seemingly good deeds of such a person are but lifeless imitations or hypocritical advertisements devoid of any reality. It is thus the duty of every reformer to concentrate on the cure of the heart first, for the heart is like the root and no dirty root would grow into a holy tree.