That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

Renunciation is in our blood.

The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind.

The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.