The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind.

We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.