Best quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda on God

Checkout quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda on God

  • Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
    - Paramahansa Yogananda
  • As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
    - Paramahansa Yogananda
  • The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
    - Paramahansa Yogananda
  • To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
    - Paramahansa Yogananda
  • The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
    - Paramahansa Yogananda
  • If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
    - Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
    - Paramahansa Yogananda