PATHS WHICH MEN TAKE THROUGH DIFFERENT TENDENCIES, VARIOUS THOUGH THEY APPEAR, CROOKED OR STRAIGHT, ALL LEAD TO THEE

I will quote to you, brethren, a few lines from a hymn which I remember to have repeated from my earliest boyhood, which is every day repeated by millions of human beings: “As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.”

- Swami Vivekananda
Delivered at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 11th September 1893