"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive." ― Elbert Hubbard Topic(s): God Tags: suffer, thank More From Elbert Hubbard "We are punished by our sins, not for them." "We work to become, not to acquire." "The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work." More In God "The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to me."― Thomas Merton "Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him."― Aeschylus "We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth."― Charles Stanley