Elbert Hubbard Quotes

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I believe in angels. I believe in God.

When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all.