Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it.

It is not that Christ is superior to Allah, not that Allah is everything and Brahma is nothing, but it is the same one whom you call either Brahma or Allah, or Almighty, or by a hundred other names. The names are different but God is one and the same.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image.

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.