Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

The force of nonviolence is infinitely more wonderful and subtle than the material forces of nature, like electricity.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

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.

God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority.