Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.
Swami VivekanandaHow absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!
Swami VivekanandaJust as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them.
Swami VivekanandaRenunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation.
Swami VivekanandaFor a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not dare utter what they thought. Many thought the case hopeless and the cause of religion lost once and for ever. But the tide has turned and to the rescue has come - what? The study of comparative religions. By the study of different religions we find that in essence they are one.
Swami Vivekananda