Religion Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

— Swami Vivekananda

Holiness sincerity, and faith.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hinduism is the mother of all religions

— Swami Vivekananda

It is faith that makes a lion of a man.

— Swami Vivekananda

Above all, India is the land of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion is not in fault.

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

— Swami Vivekananda

The idol is the expression of religion.

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind.

— Swami Vivekananda

You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith.

— Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

— Swami Vivekananda

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

— Swami Vivekananda

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

— Swami Vivekananda

My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.

— Swami Vivekananda

If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

— Swami Vivekananda

“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical…

— Swami Vivekananda

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

— Swami Vivekananda

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged…

— Swami Vivekananda

We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this…

— Swami Vivekananda

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one…

— Swami Vivekananda

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a…

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to…

— Swami Vivekananda

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to…

— Swami Vivekananda

The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes…

— Swami Vivekananda

It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature… This conquering of the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite…

— Swami Vivekananda

Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by…

— Swami Vivekananda

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature.…

— Swami Vivekananda

You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O…

— Swami Vivekananda

Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only,…

— Swami Vivekananda

So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God…

— Swami Vivekananda

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end…

— Swami Vivekananda

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of…

— Swami Vivekananda

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith…

— Swami Vivekananda

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The tender plant of spirituality will die if exposed too early to the action of a constant change of ideas and ideals.…

— Swami Vivekananda

For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those…

— Swami Vivekananda