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.

I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ.

My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.

Do not run away, it is cowardice.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.