Swami Sivananda Quotes

Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

I have a very powerful belief structure. I'm very spiritual. I'm not religious but I am spiritual.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous and incredible. But we must use them properly to bring us joy, and that requires spiritual and moral leadership.

To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.