A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.