My child, if you want peace, then do not look into anybody’s faults. Look into your own faults. Learn to make the world your own. No one is stranger., my child; the whole world is your own.
– Sarda Devi.

The Master used to say that truthfulness alone is the austerity of the present age. One attains to God by holding to the truth.
– Sarda Devi.

How can the devotees really have any caste? Children are all equal.
– Sarda Devi.

The chief characteristic of the Master’s sadhana was his renunciation. Has anyone ever seen such natural renunciation? Renunciation is his great ornament.
– Sarda Devi.

Everything, no doubt, happens by God’s will, yet man must work because God expresses His will through man’s action. Do not relax your spiritual practices.
– Sarda Devi.

Practice meditation, and by and by your mind will be so calm and fixed that you will find it hard to keep away from meditation.
– Sarda Devi.

The mind is no better than a wild elephant. It runs with the wind. Therefore one should always discriminate and strive hard for the realisation of God.
– Sarda Devi.

One realises God in proportion to the intensity of one’s feeling for Him. He who is really eager to cross the ocean of the world will somehow break his bonds. No one can entangle him. The Master (Sri Ramakrishna) is the embodiment of all deities and of all mantras….Really and truly, one can worship through him all gods and goddesses.
– Sarda Devi.

I can’t contain myself when one draws near me and calls me Mother.

– Sarda Devi.

Sri Ramakrishna left me behind to manifest the Motherhood of God to the world.

– Sarda Devi.