On Life and Essays on Religion Quotes

“Man is a weak and miserable animal until the light of God burns in his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, On Life and Essays on Religion

“The attempts to found a morality apart from religion, are like the attempts of children who, wishing to transplant a flower that pleases them, pluck it from the roots that seem to them unpleasant and superfluous, and stick it rootless into the ground. Without religion there can be no real, sincere morality, just as without roots there can be no real flower.”
― Leo Tolstoy, On Life and Essays on Religion

“[W]e often see the simplest, least-learned, and least-educated people quite clearly, consciously, and easily, assimilating the highest Christian understanding of life, while very learned and cultured men continue to stagnate in paganism.”
― Leo Tolstoy, On Life and Essays on Religion