“The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.”

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.

Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.

The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one’s devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a gift.

Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.