It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

If I am a Pariah, I will be all the more glad, for I am the disciple of a man, who - the Brahmin of Brahmins - wanted to cleanse the house of a Pariah. (here "the man" means Ramakrishna)

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.