Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

God knows, but He's waiting

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.

Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Happiness is pleasure without regret