Swami Vivekananda Quotes

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

The road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?