There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause, because people never went to the fountain-head; they were content only to … - Swami Vivekananda

Ye are the children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye divinities on earth — sinners! It is a sin to call man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. Come up, lions! and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal.

Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.

There is only one sin. That is weakness.... The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.