Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahansa"
Quotations
God
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa "Ramakrishna Paramahansa"
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.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
God does not test you because he knows you completely - your past, present and future.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Burnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations, puja and taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage: the merits of all these can be obtained by enshrining Lord within your heart for a fraction of a second.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
-Blaise Pascal
Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.
-Robert "Bob" Pierce
God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
-Rabindranath Tagore
"Stray Birds"
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
-Ravi Zacharias
"Has Christianity Failed You?"
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
-Albert Camus
"Notebooks 1951-1959"
People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
-Pearl Bailey
