God cannot be seen so long as there is the slightest taint of desire. Therefore have your minor desires satisfied, and renounce the major ones through right reasoning and discrimination.

– Sri Ramakrishna.

Be as devoid of vanity as the cast away leaf carried by the high wind.

– Sri Ramakrishna.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

– Sri Ramakrishna.

All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Do everything that is necessary in the proper time, and let your mind be always fixed on God.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

I will give up twenty thousand such bodies to help one man. It is glorious to help even one man.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Every man should follow his own religion. A Christian should follow Christianity, and a Mohammedan Mohammedanism. For the Hindu, the ancient path, the path of the Aryan Rishis, is the best.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

A truly religious man should think that other religions are also many paths leading to the Truth. One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Let me be condemned to be born over and over again, even in the form of a dog, if so I can be of help to a single soul.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Jiva is Shiva (all living beings are God). Who then dare talk of showing mercy to them? Not mercy, but service, service. For man must be regarded as God.
– Sri Ramakrishna.