Powerful Thoughts Of Sri Ramakrishna

God is formless and God is with form too, and He is that which transcends both form and formlessness. He alone can say what else He is.

God with form is visible, nay we can touch Him, as one does his dearest friend.

Have you any idea of God with form and God without form?
They are like ice and water. When water freezes into ice it has form;
when the same ice is melted into water, all form is lost.

God with form and God without form are not two different beings.
He who is with form is also without form.
To a devotee God manifests Himself in various forms.
Just think of a shoreless ocean...an infinite expanse of water...
no land visible in any direction; only here and there are visible
blocks of ice formed by intense cold.
Similarly under the cooling influence, so to say,
of the deep devotion of His worshiper,
the Infinite reduces Himself into the Finite and
appears before him as a Being with form.
Again as on the appearance of the sun,
the ice melts away, so on the appearance of knowledge,
God with form melts away into the formless.