Quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.

Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

God finds himself by creating.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.