Ramakrishna Quotes on God (21 Quotes)

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

God is the master, the devotee is the servant. God is the beloved the devotee is the lover.

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of the day So, O man as you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

A poor devotee points to the sky and says, God is up there. An average devotee says, God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master. The best devotee says, God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

God is our inner controller He will certainly listen to our prayer if it is sincere.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.