Faith Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

— Leo Tolstoy

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

— Leo Tolstoy

Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

— Leo Tolstoy

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would…

— Leo Tolstoy

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one’s life.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Faith—or not faith—I don't know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root…

— Leo Tolstoy

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.…

— Leo Tolstoy

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and…

— Leo Tolstoy

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good…

— Leo Tolstoy

“What are these deaths and revivals? It is clear that I do not live whenever I lose my faith in the existence…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Much sand has run out since then, many recollections of the past have faded from my memory or become blurred in indistinct…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Faith is neither hope nor trust, but a particular spiritual state. Faith is man’s awareness that his position in the world obliges…

— Leo Tolstoy

“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,…

— Leo Tolstoy

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their…

— Leo Tolstoy

In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must…

— Leo Tolstoy

“My reasoning proceeded in the following manner. "Like man and his power of reason," I said to myself, "the nowledge of faith…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It will readily be understood that Nechludoff’s influence caused me to adopt his bent of mind, the essence of which lay in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I recalled the hundreds of occasions when life had died within me only to be reborn. I remembered that I only lived…

— Leo Tolstoy

“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Although these words of hers confirmed in me my conviction that I was not handsome, they also confirmed in me an ambition…

— Leo Tolstoy

“You do not admit the conceivability at all?' he queried. 'But why not? We admit the existence of electricity, of which we…

— Leo Tolstoy

“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

“S., a clever and truthful man, once told me the story of how he ceased to believe. On a hunting expedition, when…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given, such answers always give an infinite meaning…

— Leo Tolstoy

Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by…

— Leo Tolstoy

“With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their…

— Leo Tolstoy

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Those who don’t believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their…

— Leo Tolstoy