Quotes from Radhanath Swami

Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes, but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

Pridelessness is negative good; humility is positive good.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.

Opportunities are always there for us to grow, opportunities are always there for us to come closer to each other & come closer to God; if we just look for them.

Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.

What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

If we have strong desire then God miraculously removes obstacles and gives us the power to overcome them.

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.