You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love, Wisdom and Bliss!

Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.

If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.

Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

Nothing makes you happier than when you really reach out in mercy to someone who is badly hurt.

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

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