Ramakrishna Quotes

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can a...

Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise...

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physician...

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.