“I turned my attention to every thing that was done by people who claimed to be Christians, I was horrified.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has enemies, and always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Christianity, expecting from its adherents gentleness, meekness, peaceableness, forgiveness of injuries, turning the other cheek when one is struck, and love for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We are all brothers, but I live on a salary paid me for prosecuting, judging, and condemning the thief or the prostitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace, in delivering addresses, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“To bring under the sway of Christianity savage nations who do not attack us and whom we have therefore no excuse for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is just the same with the so-called criminals living in our midst. To bring these people under the sway of Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
![“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b01/leo-tolstoy-55_christianity_nothing-has-contributed-so-much-to-the-o_428484.jpg)
