Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
“there is a continuity of mind, as the Yogis call it. The mind is universal. Your mind, my mind, all these little minds, are… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share
