"In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live."
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"In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live."
"Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself."
"God cannot be realized through intellect."
"Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means."
"In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth."
"Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating"
"Absolute calm is not the law of ocean. And it is the same with the ocean of life."
"The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita."
"No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice."
"Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism."
"That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow."
"I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive."
"It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen."
"We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place."
"It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority."
"Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God."
"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say."
"Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health."
"Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs."
"Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony."