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Without the sanction of the Lord, man cannot achieve anything in the world. The Divine is the basis for everything. Man, however, is filled with the conceit that he is the one who is doing everything. This pride is the cause of his ruin. It is the cause of his frustration and disappointment. Man today is basing his life on reliance on Nature, forgetting God. This is a grievous mistake. You must place your faith in God, who is the prime supporter of Nature, and enjoy what Nature provides. Faith in God is the primary requisite for man.

(SSS. Vol XXII – Chap 17)

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As long as we live, we should spend our lives in harmony and fellow-feeling. All our difficulties can be overcome by contemplation on God. Forgetting God and immersing yourself in worldly concerns, what do you achieve? Have firm faith in God. Don’t give room for differences of caste, creed and nationality. All names and forms belong to the Divine. All that you see is a manifestation of the Cosmic Form of the Lord. With firm faith in the Divine, chanting the Lord’s name, redeem your lives.

(SSS. Vol XXIII – Chap 34)

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You are the imperishable Aathma that knows no fear. I want you also to banish two ideas from your hearts :

(1) Forget the harm that anyone has done to you, and

(2) Forget the good that you have done to others.

(SSS. Vol XI – Chap 40)

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Do not try to find fault with others; Search, rather, for your own. I direct you to implant three ideals in your hearts :

(1) Do not forget God;(2) Do not put faith in the world

you see around you;

it is changing every second

and does not last;(3) Do not be afraid.

(SSS. Vol XI – Chap 40)

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It should be realized, however, that there is no greater friend for anyone than God. He is beyond the reach of praise or censure. He does not give up man on the ground of the latter’s failure to come up to His expectations. That is why God has been given the appellation, Suhrid (a good friend). God desires no offerings from any devotee. God is the only one friend who confers benefits on devotees without expecting any return. Nevertheless, man does not readily accept such a friend. Only the man who accepts God as such a friend and is guided by His advice can understand the full meaning of Divine friendship. Faith of this nature alone constitutes true Jnana (sacred knowledge).

(SSS. Vol XXIV – Chap 2)

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All religions teach one basic discipline: the removal from the mind of the blemish of egoism, of running after little joy. Every religion teaches man to fill his beings with the Glory of God and evict the pettiness of conceit. It trains him in methods of detachment and discrimination, so that he may aim high and attain liberation. Believe that all hearts are motivated by the One and Only God; that all faiths glorify the One and Only God; that all names in all languages and all forms man can conceive, denote the One and Only God; His adoration is best done by means of love. Cultivate that attitude of Oneness, between men of all creeds, all countries and all continents. That is the message of love, I bring. That is the message I wish you to take to heart.

(SSS. Vol VIII – Chap 22)

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Stick to your faith; do not change your loyalty as soon as something happens or some one whispers. Do not pull down Sai Baba’s picture from the wall and hang some other picture there at the first disappointment.

Leave all to Him; let His Will be carried out – that should be your attitude. Unless you go through the rough and the smooth, how can you be hardened? Welcome the light and the shade, the sun and the rain.

Do not think that only those who worship a picture or image with paraphernalia are devotees. Whoever walks straight along the moral path, whoever acts as he speaks and speaks as he has seen, whoever melts at another’s woe and exults at another’s joy – is a devotee, perhaps a greater devotee.

(SSS. Vol II – Chap 2)

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Why drag out your existence as mere consumer of food, as a moving burden encumbering the earth? Eat, but transform food into good deeds, good thoughts and sweet speech; move, but do not cause pain to others or add to their misery. Do not condemn yourselves as weak, sinful, conceited, wicked, outlawed, mean, etc. When you so condemn yourself, remember you are actually condemning Me, who is your Inner Self. Live, so that with every breath and step, you come nearer and nearer to Me.

(SSS. Vol II – Chap 19)

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Come to Me with empty hands; I shall fill your hands with gifts and Grace.

 If your hands are full, what am I to fill them with?

(SSS. Vol II – Chap 29)

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I come only where sincerity, faith and surrender are valued. So spend the silent hours in meditation and naamasmarana (remembering the Lord’s name) in your own homes and deepen faith. I do not need bhajans which, like gramophone records, reproduce songs and naamaavalis, without any feeling or yearning while singing. Hours of shouting do not count; a moment of concentrated prayer from the heart is enough, to melt and move God.

(SSS. Vol IV – Chap 35)

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The Lord is the unseen foundation on which your life is built. He is the source, sustenance and strength. Without His will, no leaf can turn, no blade of grass can quiver. What firmer foundation can you desire than this? Once you know that the Lord, the Omnipotent Power, is the mainspring of your life, there will be no fear any more.

(SSS. Vol IV – Chap 51)

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How can you know Me if you do not come near Me and unto Me?

(SSS. Vol V – Chap 5)