Ramakrishna

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.