HE is the searcher of hearts. HE transcends speech and reason. HE knows us and our hearts better than we do our selves. HE does not take us at our word, for HE knows that we often do mean it, some knowingly and others unknowingly.

He cannot cease to be because hideous immoralities or inhuman brutalities are committed in His name. He is a long suffering. He is patient but He is also terrible. He is the most exacting personage in the world and the world to come. He metes out the same measures to us that we mete out to our neighbors men and brutes. With Him ignorance is no excuse. And withal He is ever forgiving for He always gives us the chance to repent.

He is the greatest democrat the world knows, for He leaves us unfettered to make our own choice between evil and good. He is the greatest tyrant ever known, for He often dashes the cup from our lips and under the cover of free will leaves us a margin so wholly inadequate as to provide only mirth for Himself at our expense. Therefore it is that Hinduism calls it all His sport lila, or calls it all an illusion maya.

God is not outside this earthly case of ours. Therefore, exterior proof is not of much avail, if any at all. We must over fail to perceive Him through the senses, because He is beyond them. We can feel Him, if we will but withdraw ourselves from the senses. The divine music is incessantly going on within ourselves, but the loud senses drown the delicate music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive or hear with our senses.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and He tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, He comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that He is always at your beck and call, but on His terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, He has forsaken me.

The divine guidance often comes when the horizon is the blackest.

Man’s ultimate aim is the realization of god, and all his activities, social, political, religious, have to be guided by the ultimate aim of the vision of God. The immediate service of all human beings becomes a necessary part of the endeavor, simply because the only way to find God is to see Him in His creation and be one with it. This can only be done by service of all. I am a part and parcel of the whole, and I cannot find Him apart from the rest of humanity.

God helps when one feels oneself humbler than the very dust under one’s feet. Only to the weak and helpless is divine succor vouchsafed.

Mankind is notoriously too sense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we would wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all is the only way to find oneself.

If you would ask Him to help you, you would go to Him in all your nakedness, approach Him without reservations, also without fear or doubts as to how He can help a fallen being like you. He who has helped millions who have approached Him, is He going to desert you?