Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
Ramakrishna

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
Ramakrishna

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
Ramakrishna

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
Ramakrishna

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Ramakrishna

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
Ramakrishna

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Ramakrishna

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Ramakrishna

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Ramakrishna