Ramakrishna quotes

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

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 physicians.

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 be muddled.

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

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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

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 also climb up by a bamboo pole.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

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