The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.