These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

All misery and pain come from attachment.

Who shall make me perfect? I am perfect already.

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.