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The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.
Swami Vivekananda
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Swami Vivekananda
Age: 39 †
Born: 1863
Born: January 12
Died: 1902
Died: July 4
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He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.
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Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.
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I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him whatever in me or in my words is good and true and eternal came to me from his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth's religious life, of its impulses and activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master, I shall not have lived in vain.
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In the English character, the give and take policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.
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We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.
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