Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

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.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.