Quotes from Swami Vivekananda

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

There is only one Soul in the Universe. There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God.

The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God.

The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration.

If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.