The Kingdom of God is Within You - Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God Is Within You is a metaphysical essay written by Leo Tolstoy. As a result of Tolstoy's lengthy deliberation, it presents a new structure for the world built on an understanding of Christianity through the lens of universal love.In The Kindgom of God is Within You, Tolstoy urge the readers to look within themselves to find the answers to questions of morality and shows them why they must reject any sort of violence, even that sanctioned by the state or the church.Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 1828 to November 20 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction.Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.