Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.

If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.

The Absolute cannot be divided.

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.