We can place our faith in so many things that really won’t increase our faith in Krishna, because they give us some temporary shelter. But if we actually want to be sheltered in Krishna consciousness in our relationships with Krishna, we have to seek the association of those devotees who give us shelter in that relationship, devotees who don’t pretend that there are other shelters in the material world, and who increase our own conviction that actually Krishna is our only shelter and that the safest place in the material world is to be chanting Krishna's Holy Name.
May 1, 2008, Kiev, Meeting with disciples