The magnetic needle always points to the North, and hence it is that the 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.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

One is safe to live in the world. If one has Viveka (discrimination of the Real from the unreal), and Vairagya (dispassion), and along with these intense devotion to God.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Be not a traitor to your thoughts. Be sincere; act according to your thoughts; and you shall succeed. Pray with a sincere and simple heart, and your prayers will be heard.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

It is the power of Brahman in man that causes the mind and the intellect and senses to perform their functions; and when that power ceases to act, these also stop work.
– Sri Ramakrishna

There are pearls in the deep sea, but you must hazard all perils to get them. If you fail to get at them by a single dive, do not conclude that the sea is without them. Dive again and again, and you are sure to be rewarded in the end. So also in the quest for Lord, if you first attemp to see Him proves fruitless, do not lose heart.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Man suffers so much simply for want of devotion to God. One should therefore adopt such means as would help the thought of God to arise in the mind at the last moment of one’s life. The means is practice of devotion to God.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O Man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

“If you have the right ideal always present before your eyes, nothing goes wrong. I am taking to work for God-realization – this ideal must remain in the mind. When you do so, the mind would understand that the work is only the path, not the ideal.”
– Sri M.

“They who know none but the Lord repeat His name with every breath. Some carry out unceasingly the japa of Rama, or Om Rama mentally. People who have taken to the path of jnana also keep on carrying out the japa of Soham. The tongue of some people is indeed always moving.”
– Sri Ramakrishna

“Keeping seventy-five percent of the mind in God, one should work with twenty-five percent in it.”
– Sri Ramakrishna.