The Gospel in Brief Quotes

“The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“the Lord’s Prayer is nothing less than Christ’s whole teaching, stated in most concise form”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“I regard Christianity neither as an inclusive divine revelation nor as an historical phenomenon, but as a teaching which-gives us the meaning of life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“the true life is outside time; it is in the present”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“He who commits his life to this son of man does not die, but he who does not commit his life to him destroys himself by not trusting to what is life itself Division (death) consists in this, that life came into the world, but men go away from that life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“Moses gave us a law, but we received the true faith through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God or will ever see God, only his son, who is in the Father, has shown us the path of life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“Not all will believe in my teaching. And they who will not believe, will hate it; because it bereaves them of that which they love, and strife will come of it. My teaching, like fire, will kindle the world. And from it strife must arise in the world. Strife will arise in every house. Father against son, mother against daughter; and their kin will become haters of them who understand my teaching, and they will be killed. Because, for him who shall understand my teaching, neither his father, nor his mother, nor wife, nor children, nor all his property, will have any weight.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The gospel in brief

“the true life is outside time; it is in the present. 9. Time is an illusion in life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present. 10. And therefore, one must aim to destroy the deception arising from the past and future, the life in time. 11. The true life is that now present to us, common to all, and manifesting itself in love. 12. And therefore, he who lives by love now, in this present, becomes, through the common life of all men, at one with the Father, the source, the foundation of life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“man feels in his soul that love and goodness toward his fellow-men is the only true, free, eternal life”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“The foundation and beginning of all things is the understanding of life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“The Gospel is the revelation of this truth, that the first source of everything is the understanding of life itself.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“The teaching is summed up in this — Love one another.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“the people is cursed, they were always stupid and unlearned; they believe every one.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“It is impossible to prove the truth. The truth itself proves all the rest.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“He, moreover, did not, as Socrates did, transmit His teaching to informed and literate men, but spoke to a crowd of illiterate men”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“Time is an illusion in life; the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“True life is given to men and they know it and hear its call, but constantly distracted by the cares of the moment they deprive themselves of it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“He who considers himself Orthodox will not do works of love; only he who considers himself a wrong-doer will do them. And for works of love everything is forgiven. And”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief

“Pray only thus: Our Father, without beginning and without end, like the heavens! May Thy being alone be holy. May power be Thine alone, so that Thy will may be done, without beginning and without end, on earth. Give me the food of life this present day. Efface my former mistakes and wipe them out, as I efface and wipe out all the mistakes my brothers have made; that I may not fall into temptation, but be saved from evil. For the power and strength are Thine, and the decision is Thine.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief