Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our being also. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by any historical discovery. It is the solid foundation of Christianity.
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
Only through love can we obtain communion with God.
The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.
Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being, may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.
To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. It’s really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.
The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought – that is a real force.
Think with great gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.