To be free from passion and ignorance

"Only when we are satisfied with the present can we be free from passion, which casts us to the future, and from ignorance, which projects us into the past." -H.H. Dhanurdhara Swami 

So much nonsense in the world

"We take a newspaper and we read what the politician says, so many nonsense things.  We waste our time.  Srama eva hi kevalam.  We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krishna." -Srila Prabhupada 

Beware of the shams out there

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to beasts as well as man it is all a sham. -Anna Sewell (19th century writer)

A qualification for bhakti

The main qualification for bhakti is to be free from pretension. Pretension means to pose as something we are not. We are, by constitution, insignificant. To hold any other view is pretentious.
- H.G. Bhurijana Prabhu

The Glories of the Vaisnava

One should decorate the body with the dust from the lotus feet of the Vaisnavas, because, by this, one can achieve transcendental realizations.  By constantly associating with devotees, one's cultivation of devotional service is purified and one can conquer nescience. -Srila Narottama dasa Thakura