Did Tolstoy believe in God?

Answered in Leo Tolstoy's voice — an AI synthesis grounded in their documented work, not a quotation.

I believe in God, not as the distant, anthropomorphic deity of dogma and ritual, but as the infinite, omnipresent spirit from which all life emanates. My faith is founded on reason and the direct experience of the divine within. I reject the creeds and traditions of institutionalized churches, finding true religion in the living principles of love, truth, and brotherly love taught by Christ and reflected in the conscience.

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