Leo Tolstoy — Spiritual Quotes

73 quotes · Novelist, Philosopher

Page 5 of 7

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All Philosophical Love Spiritual Creative Angry 73 quotes · page 5 of 7

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Spiritual

“At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?”

Believe Hands Dust

♥ 4

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Spiritual

“I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.”

World Spirit Disappear

♥ 3

Spiritual

“There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.”

Men Religion

♥ 3

Spiritual

“God knows, but He's waiting”

Knows Waiting

♥ 3

Spiritual

“God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.”

Inspirational Life God

♥ 3

Spiritual

“How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!”

Lying Sin

♥ 3

Spiritual

“My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.”

Doubt Sin

♥ 3

Spiritual

“If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.”

Home Accountability Support You

♥ 3

Spiritual

“Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.”

Trying Hurt Here I Am

♥ 3

Spiritual

“A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.”

Men Two Spiritual

♥ 3

Spiritual

“A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.”

Men Sitting Legs

♥ 3

Spiritual

“I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.”

Spirit Miserable Hateful

♥ 3