Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.

I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.

Practice makes us what we shall be.

We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.