Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence.

God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it.

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.

The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light.