Elbert Hubbard Quotes

If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

I want to see people do more than simply raise their hand when they come to Christ. Where are the totally changed lives?

I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

It's been a while since I've been to church, but you don't get unborn again.

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of travelling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now, since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have lost my taste for these things.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Each generation has to create the image of God that works for it.

Civilization and religion do not necessarily move with equal pace.

Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.

Having grown up Catholic, my prayers were scripted - memorized and deployed in church and before bed. As a young adult, I veered off script and talked to God more plainly. And by 'talked to,' I mean that I basically asked for things to turn out the way I wanted them to.

I have noticed a difference in myself spiritually. I have had a better relationship with my wife and kids. It's because I am putting the gospel first. I just wish it hadn't taken me so long to realize it.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes.

Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.