370 quotes found
“There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.”
“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.”
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.”
“Hard work beats talent, when talent doesn’t work hard”
“We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present co...”
“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, — all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth centu...”
“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage...”
“In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires im...”
“Christian missions to India imply that India is a land of heathens, and, therefore, stands on the same level with the Andaman or the Fiji Islands. That a country which has been recognised in all ag...”
“My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the ...”
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen”
“The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out of nothing in six days by a personal God, vicarious atonement, absolution...”
“There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions.”
“…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi”
“Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.”
“If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.”
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.”
“To a man with an empty stomach food is god.”
“Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.”
