Ramakrishna Quotes

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

Know that all times are Holy, that every religion holds truth, that each tradition is sacred, and that it is in the simple sharing of love that we make our beliefs come alive, and our dreams come true.

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith...So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place.

We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe 'the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.

There is no fundamental difference between one religion and another, because each religion embodies the ultimate Truth. Each religion is right, absolutely right, because each religion conveys the message of Truth in its own way.

Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

There's truth in every religion. Christians believe that there's truth in every religion. But we just believe that there's one savior. We believe we can learn truth - I've learned a lot of truth from different religions. Because they all have a portion of the truth. I just believe there is one savior, Jesus Christ.

God cannot be realized through intellect.

God has no religion.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.