Ramakrishna Quotes

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

I experience God as the power of love.

The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.

The groves were God's first temples.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Men are never safe against the temptation of claiming God too simply as the sanctifier of whatever we most fervently desire.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.