Meditate on God either in an obscure corner, or in the solitude of forests, or within the silent sanctuary of your own heart.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

As the dawn heralds the Sun, so sincerity, unselfishness, purity, and righteousness precede the advent of the Lord.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Purify the spectacles of your mind, and you will see that the world is God.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Do not let worldly thoughts and anxieties disturb your mind.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

In this age work without devotion to God has no legs to stand upon. It is like a foundation on sand. First cultivate devotion. All other things–schools, dispensaries, etc.–will, if you like, be added to you. First devotion, then work. Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

One can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope; so too, diverse are the ways of approaching God and each religion in the world shows one of the ways.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Look at the anvil of a blacksmith–how it is hammered and beaten; yet it moves not from its place. Let men learn patience and endurance from it.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

Seekest thou God? Then see Him in man; His Divinity is manifest more in man than in any other object. Man is the greatest manifestation of God.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

He is a true man who is dead even in this life–that is, whose passions and propensities have been curbed to extinction as in dead body.
– Sri Ramakrishna.

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.