A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there is nothing on earth more splendid and interesting than himself.

Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.

Who is more arrogant
within his soul, who is more impious
than one who dares to sorrow at God’s judgment?

You cannot hide the soul.

Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so!

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

We may feel empty, lost, broken, and hurt, but the soul is unbreak-
able. The Bhagavad Gita spends seven verses talking about the indestructibility of
the soul. “That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestruc-
tible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul. The soul can never be cut to
pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by
the wind. This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither
burned nor dried. It is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable, immovable
and eternally the same.

We have to conclude that a Christian with no passion for the lost is in serious need of self-examination and repentance.

Unless a man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

"My view of Christianity is such," he added, "that I think no man can consistently profess it without throwing the whole weight of his being against this monstrous system of injustice that lies at the foundation of all our society; and, if need be, sacrificing himself in the battle. That is, I mean that I could not be a Christian otherwise, though I have certainly had intercourse with a great many enlightened and Christian people who did no such thing; and I confess that the apathy of religious people on this subject, their want of perception of wrongs that filled me with horror, have engendered in me more scepticism than any other thing."

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.