Keshub Chunder Sen Quotes

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

In the East all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East everybody is against the ego from the very beginning. Because of this anti attitude, ego never becomes strong, never comes to a point of integration from where it can be thrown. It is never ripe. So in the East it is very difficult to dissolve the ego, almost impossible.

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.

To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

As long as you are proud, you cannot know God.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of the most interesting disciplines.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.

Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.