Having an open heart; do not relish the narrow path of restricted love; love all, do not develop prejudices against men in power or position. They too are our kith and kin; we all sail together. (SSS Vol.7, p. 478)
The kinship between the jiva and the Lord can be grasped and acquired with three chief instruments (1) a mind unsullied by attachment and hatred (2) a speech unsullied by falsehood and (3) a body unsullied by violence. (Prema Vahini, p. 18)
Shri Rama said to Shabari, ‘My mission is only the kinship of bhakti. I have no kinship of race or caste’. (Prema Vahini, p. 53)
‘You complain that God is hard-hearted; that He does not respond to prayer, or give signs from His portraits, or speak from ‘nowhere’ to assuage or assure; but let Me tell you, God is Love, Love is God. When there is no response, you have to infer that the cry from your heart is insincere, it is mere play-acting. It is set to a pattern, addressed to someone alien to you, someone accepted by you as far away a tyrant or a taskmaster. Know that God is your nearest and dearest kin’. (SSSm Vol.3, p. 178)
Man is a kin to all, that is the teaching of ‘Sanathana Dharma’ - ‘the rules of the Ancient Wisdom’. (UD, pp. C-VIII, 6)
The chief source of ananda is dedication to God; nothing else can give that genuine and lasting joy. Become conscious of your Kinship with the Lord. That kinship is not a mere fancy or a faked theory. It has come down since ages, from the beginning of Time itself. It will persist till the end of Time, or in other words, till the end of Time so far as you are concerned. The Godavari is carrying all the waters of all the tributary streams relentlessly to the sea. The rain falls on the mountains; as streams it flows in the plains and the full Godavari rushes through the Delta. So too, the Jiva is born in Dharma marga, it journeys through Marma marga and it rushes through Sadhu marga to reach Brahma marga. The Karma marga and Sadhu marga are discovered by the senses of perception,Jnanendriyas. Keep them uncontaminated by Asuric qualities and watch vigilantly lest they slip back. The Karmendriyas or the sensory organs drag you into tangle of Prakriti itself. The cow eats grass and drinks gruel, but out of these it creates sweet sustaining milk; so too, let the experiences which are gathered by your senses help in the production of the sweetness of kindness, the purity of devotion and the sustenance of Shanti. (SSS Vol.1, p. 78)
(See - Devotion, God, Revere)