When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

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.

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

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

Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.