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Every word of Truth proceeds from God, whether that Truth be written in the rocks and read by the geologist or written in the heavens and read by the astronomer or written in the heart of man or written in this old book.
Benjamin Fish Austin
No young woman should be placed in circumstances such as to make marriage an only refuge from poverty or dependence upon her friends or a life of ennui.
Benjamin Fish Austin
It is easy to see what is heresy today, but who can tell what will be heresy tomorrow.
Benjamin Fish Austin
The heterodoxy of one age will become the orthodoxy of the next.
Benjamin Fish Austin
The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire.
Benjamin Fish Austin
Why should inspiration be limited to one past age? If Truth came to Paul 1900 years ago it can come to you today. After all, Heaven is as near to-day, God is as loving and as kind to-day, and truth as abundant to-day, as in the ages when men are said to have possessed inspiration.
Benjamin Fish Austin
Christ has recognised and declared woman's equality with man.
Benjamin Fish Austin
The scientific fact of clairvoyance, telepathy, soul-flight, psychometry, and prophecy are well established by incontrovertible evidence yet to mention them in certain circles is to ostracize yourself.
Benjamin Fish Austin
Why should old interpretations of scripture, all of which reflect the ignorance and prejudice and limitations of the age in which they were formulated, bar the way to progress in our modern day?
Benjamin Fish Austin
It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago.
Benjamin Fish Austin
I do not believe in infallible men, nor in an infallible church, nor in an infallible book.
Benjamin Fish Austin
A difficulty in seeking Truth is the notion that certain men are ordained of heaven to seek Truth for all mankind and that we are to accept their acquisitions in the place of seeking for ourselves. We can never attain Truth by proxy. By divine ordination every man is an original investigator of Truth. He denies his own reason who hands over his religious views and opinions to any priest or religious teacher... We are to accept nothing on the opinions of others. What another man has thought and believed, what a Church Council or synod has formulated is nothing to me, only that it may be a reason for personal investigation ending in acceptance or rejection as I may find it in harmony with reason and well established truth.
Benjamin Fish Austin
Is God asleep that he should cease to be all that he was to the prophets of the past?
Benjamin Fish Austin
To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.
Benjamin Fish Austin
I have found a truth that humanity needs, that brings unspeakable joy to human hearts and homes, that brightens all the life, that assuages sorrow, that dispels care, that kills the materialistic spirit of our age, and lifts mankind into noble thought and life.
Benjamin Fish Austin
We live in a period of transitions. Old interpretations of the scripture are giving way to new ones. Old conceptions of the method of creation are no longer popular.
Benjamin Fish Austin
Have we not the right to our own views, and own interpretations, and own creeds, and own Truths equal to those that proceeded us? Must we forever wear the cast-off garments of past ages?
Benjamin Fish Austin
Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value.
Benjamin Fish Austin
We know as well as history can teach us that all religions are one and the same- all the outgrowth of man's moral nature, differing only according to the intelligence and advancement of the people among whom they originated.
Benjamin Fish Austin
Jesus' teachings were never set before his followers as a finality. God has dealt with Humanity as we deal with children. He has given to every...age Truths adapted to their development.
Benjamin Fish Austin
The Church has become hostile to new ideas. If any doctrine came from the priesthood the church would hear it and heed it, but if it came from an out of the way place, like Nazareth, they would scorn and persecute it. It was churchmen who put Jesus to the cross. In Luther's time when he hurled his advanced ideas like bombshells into the Roman Church, it was the churchmen of his day that sought his death. In Wesley's time, though he preached the purest form of spiritual Truth that was proclaimed to his age, yet the churchmen of his time drove him out and he had to preach in graveyards and coal mines and on the markets.
Benjamin Fish Austin