The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor is a Hindu or a Buddhist to become a Christian.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. .… — 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 Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
