Leo Tolstoy Quotes

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Do I worship God or what other people think of me?

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jnâna, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

God wants us to live consistently, He wants us to enjoy every single day of our lives.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

I just want to do God’s will.