Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Love is life, love is god, love is sannyas!

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Where love is, there God is also.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

God is love, and love is love.

I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.

Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost, Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look Unready to forego what I forsook; This say I, having counted up the cost, This, tho' I be the feeblest of God's host, The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook. Yet while I love my God the most, I deem That I can never love you overmuch; I love Him more, so let me love you too; Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such I cannot love you if I love not Him. I cannot love Him if I love not you.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

love is the every only god

So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

My religion is, to live through Love.

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.