112 quotes
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
Gitanjali (1912)
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Stray Birds (1916)
God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
Fireflies (1928)
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
The Gardener (1915)
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
The Gardener (1915)
While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.
Fireflies (1928)
The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf.
The Gardener (1915)
Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
Stray Birds (1916)
The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
The Fourfold Way of India (1924)
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Stray Birds (1916)
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
With a grip that kills it. Wishing to hearten a timid lamp
great night lights all her stars.
Fireflies (1928)
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years.
The Gardener (1915)
Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
Glimpses of Bengal (1921)
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
Gitanjali (1912)
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty
that can modulate their isolation
into a harmony with the whole.
Fireflies (1928)
Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness.
Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
Stray Birds (1916)
To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.
The Gardener (1915)