Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.

It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.

There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".