Ramakrishna Quotes

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.

I promise not to let you down. I will be your servant with all humility and gratitude.

I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

A devotee has no agenda of his own. For him, the object of devotion is everything.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

I remain God's humble servant.

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.