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.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.