“Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.”

Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.

Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.

Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.

Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

I don’t know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

Obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it’s boxing. It’s my profession. God always gives me strength.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.