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- Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should…
- The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.
- You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their…
- Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy,…
- Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run…
- There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as…
- We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will…
- We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but…
- Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other,…
- Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some…
- Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death…
- Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty…
- That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the…
- Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more…
- If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
- We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief…
- Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into…
- This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers…
- Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to…
- As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of…
- This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing…
- Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be…
- You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as…
- We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life…
- The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the…
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