All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life.

The best guide in life is strength.

This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another.

Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.