Sri Chinmoy Quotes

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full pursuit of pleasure. You are here to be tried, to prove yourself so that you can receive the additional blessings God has for you. . . some blessings will be delivered in this life; others will come beyond the veil. The Lord is intent on your personal growth and development. That progress is accelerated when you willingly allow Him to lead you through every growth experience you encounter, whether initially it be to your individual liking or not.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had much trouble in their life. And those that are the most sympathizing, loving and Christlike are generally those who have the most affliction. The worse thing that can happen to any of us is to have a path made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gave us was a cross.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

We always learn more from the losing than the winning.

You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

As a Christian, we always fail because we can't become Christ. But I can try to at least emulate the best qualities, even if I may fall short.

My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that's what I did.

I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.

Sometimes, it is good to lose - you learn.

You always learn a lot more when you lose.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.