Elbert Hubbard Quotes About Religion
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Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
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Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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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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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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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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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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