“It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.”

—  Ramakrishna

Saying 13
Râmakrishna : His Life and Sayings (1898)

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