Elbert Hubbard - God Quotes

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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Elbert Hubbard
It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars!

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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday.

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Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.

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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

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