Swami Vivekananda Quotes
I Remember, As A Boy, Hearing A Christian Missionary Preach To A Crowd In India. Among Other Sweet Things He Was Telling Them Was That If He Gave A Blow To Their Idol With His Stick, What Could It Do? One Of His Hearers Sharply Answered, "If I Abuse Your God, What Can He Do?" "You Would Be Punished," Said The Preacher, "when You Die." "So My Idol Will Punish You When You Die," Retorted The Hindu. The Tree Is Known By Its Fruits. When I Have Seen Amongst Them That Are Called Idolaters, Men, The Like Of Whom In Morality And Spirituality And Love I Have Never Seen Anywhere, I Stop And Ask Myself, "Can Sin Beget Holiness?
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