“Have Faith in Man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one.”
“If the Student thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Student. If the Lawyer thinks he is the Spirit, he will be a better Lawyer, and so on.”
“The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others. ”
“Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet”
“Shri Ramakrishna uses to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.”
“The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.”
“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands,bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”
“If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.”
“Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”