Tolstoy’s so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
Nothing is impossible for pure love.
Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the “Kingdom of God” within you and on this earth.
The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
God’s grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.
For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.
Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.
Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men’s hearts.
I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.
I have disregarded the order served upon me not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.