Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Whoever loves to meet God, God loves to meet him.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

He who knoweth his own self, knoweth God.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

God's house must be clean, otherwise, God will just run away.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

An almost forgotten truth, even among some practising Christians, is that it's never the physical world, but only the spirit of the world that is evil. Therefore the soul must detach itself from the spirit of the world.

Devotion is a social force.

Prayer is a turning to God.