Religion Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

— Leo Tolstoy

A holy spirit lives within you.

— Leo Tolstoy

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

— 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

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

— Leo Tolstoy

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

— Leo Tolstoy

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

— Leo Tolstoy

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man.

— Leo Tolstoy

“True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which…

— Leo Tolstoy

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in…

— 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

“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is…

— Leo Tolstoy

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of…

— Leo Tolstoy

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his…

— Leo Tolstoy

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time…

— Leo Tolstoy

“To claim that the supernatural and irrational form the basic characteristics of religion is much the same as noticing only the rotten…

— 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

“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to…

— Leo Tolstoy

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the…

— Leo Tolstoy

But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling…

— 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

“Thus the truth—that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes…

— Leo Tolstoy

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at…

— Leo Tolstoy

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship…

— Leo Tolstoy

“On earth, here on this earth, there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole…

— Leo Tolstoy

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into…

— Leo Tolstoy

“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who…

— 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

One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it,…

— Leo Tolstoy

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there…

— 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