As long as I live, so long do I learn.

— Ramakrishna

Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

— Ramakrishna

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practice even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

— Ramakrishna

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

— Ramakrishna

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

— Ramakrishna

God has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with wholehearted devotion... One may eat a cake with icing either straight or sidewise. It will taste sweet either way.

— Ramakrishna

God has revealed to me that only the Panamanian, whom the Vedas describe as the Pure Soul, is as immutable as Mount Summer, unattached, and beyond pain and pleasure. There is much confusion in this world of His Maya. One can by no means say that 'this' will come after 'that' or 'this' will produce 'that'.

— Ramakrishna

God is everywhere, but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshiping God.

— Ramakrishna

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

— Ramakrishna

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

— Ramakrishna