Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Christ
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The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.
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Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.
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The Kingdom of God is Within You.
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But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.
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To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
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Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.
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In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
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Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
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Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified.
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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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