Explore · 31 sayings

Devotion & Love

“God is love, and love is God.”
Volume 6 · Divine Love →
“The perfect man sees nothing but God.”
Volume 2 · Bhakti or Devotion →
“The name of God is greater than God.”
Volume 8 · Sayings and Utterances →
“Only the Lord is unchangeable and He is Love.”
Volume 8 · XCI Miss Noble →
“The way of all ways to realisation is love.”
Volume 8 · The Essence of Religion →
“Life in this world is an attempt to see God.”
Volume 8 · Jnana and Karma →
“It is unswerving love and perfect unselfishness that conquer everything.”
Volume 8 · LXXXI Goodwin →
“It is the heart that reaches the goal. Follow the heart.”
Volume 1 · Steps to Realisation →
“He who desires God will get Love, unto him God gives Himself.”
Volume 4 · The First Steps →
“Music is the highest art and, to those who understand is the highest worship.”
Volume 5 · LXXIII Madam →
“The whole world is full of the Lord. Open your eyes and see Him.”
Volume 2 · God in Everything →
“In the tiger and in the lamb, in the saint and sinner all He!”
Volume 6 · LXII Mrs. Bull →
“The Guru is the bright mask which God wears in order to come to us.”
Volume 8 · Discipleship →
“It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.”
Volume 2 · God in Everything →
“Love knows no fear. You may cut me to pieces, and I still love you.”
Volume 6 · Divine Love →
“Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.”
Volume 8 · Discourses on Jnana-Yoga: II →
“Always cultivate the heart; through the heart the Lord speaks, and through the intellect you yourself speak.”
Volume 1 · Steps to Realisation →
“Love opens the most impossible gates; love is the gate to all the secrets of the universe.”
Volume 3 · My Plan of Campaign →
“Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.”
Volume 8 · Discourses on Jnana-Yoga: VII →
“Love banishes all fear. A mother with her baby will face a tiger to save her child.”
Volume 8 · Four Paths of Yoga →
“Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?”
Volume 3 · Human Representations of the Divine Ideal of Love →
“Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.”
Volume 9 · The Religion of India →
“Do not make the mistake of giving the heart to anything that is changing, because that is misery.”
Volume 4 · The Great Teachers of the World →
“To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal. Pure Existence-knowledge-and-love is the goal; and Love is God.”
Volume 6 · Lessons on Raja-Yoga →
“Beggar’s love is no love at all. The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything.”
Volume 6 · Divine Love →
“God is a circle with circumference nowhere and centre everywhere. Every point in that circle is living, conscious, active, and equally working.”
Volume 5 · On Jnana-Yoga →
“We must worship the beautiful for beauty's sake, not for the hope of reward. Thus in the purity of our hearts shall we see God.”
Volume 4 · Indian Religious Thought →
“Eternal, unquestioning self – surrender to Mother alone can give us peace. Love Her for Herself, without fear or favour. Love Her because you are Her child.”
Volume 8 · The Worship of the Divine Mother →
“With love there is no painful reaction; love only brings a reaction of bliss; if it does not, it is not love; it is mistaking something else for love.”
Volume 1 · The Secret of Work →
“Bhakti is intense love for God.”
Volume 6 · Narada-Bhakti-Sutras →
“There is no condition in grace.”
Volume 6 · VI →