Elbert Hubbard Quotes

If you love god, burn a church.

Clergymen are the ticket scalpers outside the gates of heaven. Religion has been a curse to mankind.

Africa is God's country, and He can have it.

Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

At best, God can be viewed as nothing more than an uncaring incompetent father-figure

The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.

If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian.

Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?

The god who presides over the Judeo-Christian belief system bears a disquieting resemblance to those imperfect creations known as human beings. This suggests that either he really did fashion us in his own image or we fashioned him in ours.

Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.

They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.