Ramakrishna Quotes

It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe

Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.

You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion

Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.

It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.