Ramakrishna Quotes

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Make God first priority. He's worth it!

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest.

The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.