We therefore have to learn how Krsna takes His birth, which is not ordinary. If it were ordinary, why should we observe the Janmastami ceremony? His birth is divyam, divine.

- Srila Prabhupada

One should regularly take part in the ceremonies commemorating Krsna’s pastimes, such as the Janmastami celebration glorifying the Lord’s birth. On such days one should worship the Deity of Lord Krsna and the spiritual master and thus remember the Lord’s pastimes.

- Srila Prabhupada

Not a single person in the West became Krsna conscious before the Krsna consciousness movement was founded. But when the same Bhagavad-gita was presented as it is through the disciplic succession, the effect of spiritual realization was immediately manifested.

- Srila Prabhupada

A devotee always fears, “Because I am associated with the material world, so many contaminations affect me.” Therefore he is always alert in fear, which gradually diminishes his material association.

- Srila Prabhupada

A devotee desires only to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This servitude exists eternally; the Lord exists eternally, His servitor exists eternally, and the service exists eternally.

- Srila Prabhupada

Anyone who has not contacted a relationship with Nityananda is understood to have spoiled his human birth.

- Srila Prabhupada

One who is convinced that he must realize Krishna at all costs will be steadfast. Krishna Consciousness requires self control so that one will not be distracted.

- Srila Prabhupada

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William A. Ward

You give but little when you give of your possessions.  It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

-Kahlil Gibran

When we can’t piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above.  Let God help put you together.

-Terri Guillemets

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

- St. Augustine

Real love is to love Krsna, love of Krsna. So this is the highest philosophy of life, highest perfection of life, how to learn to love Krsna. Vrndavana does not mean a city or town or this or that. Vrndavana means where everyone is in love, in intense love with Krsna. That is perfection of life. And that is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s contribution.

- Srila Prabhupada

So many lifetimes we have wasted on ourselves. Now for this one lifetime let us work heart and soul to push on Lord Caitanya’s sankirtan movement. Then at the end of life, Lord Caitanya will personally come and cover whatever we lack, and take us back to Godhead.

- Srila Prabhupada

As the ocean is always dancing with waves, similarly the ocean of transcendental love of Krsna as introduced by Lord Caitanya has constant waves, constant sound. One has to dive deep into that ocean. If one knows the secret and says, “Let me dive deep into the ocean of the transcendental loving movement introduced by Lord Caitanya,” he immediately becomes one of the confidential devotees of Radha and Krsna.

- Srila Prabhupada

Whenever a devotee asks a basic question, Prabhupada often roars, “You have not read my books?”

- From “Vrindavan Days”, Ch. 10, by Hayagriva Prabhu

If one realizes that he is an eternal servant of Krsna but does not preach it, his realization is imperfect.

- Srila Prabhupada

If you want to keep back even one percent–to surrender all but one percent–then you have to stay here. Krsna is so strict. If you have any desire for material enjoyment, you have to remain. Just one percent may take millions of years. So you have to surrender everything.

- Srila Prabhupada

Lord Krsna is especially inclined to the brahmana devotees. Lord Krsna is also called brahmanya-deva, which means that He is worshiped by the brahmanas. Therefore it is understood that a devotee who is fully surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead has already acquired the position of a brahmana. Without becoming a brahmana, one cannot approach the Supreme Brahman, Lord Krsna.

- Srila Prabhupada

Anyone can become successful in devotional service provided he displays no duplicity. It is explained that one must be very frank and open-minded (amayinah). To be situated in a lower status of life is not a disqualification for success in devotional service. The only qualification is that whether one is a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sudra, he must be open, frank and free from reservations.

- Srila Prabhupada

Because we are not pure, these thoughts of sense gratification are bound to come into our mind, but if we do not act on them and keep ourselves always engaged in Krishna conscious activities, they will have no effect.  Maya is always placing the memories of our past sinful activities before us, and encouraging us to come once again into her clutches, but by always chanting Hare Krishna and keeping our mind fixed on Krishna, he will give us the strength to resist her demands, and gradually they will diminish.

- Srila Prabhupada