Benjamin Fish Austin Quotes

To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.

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

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 everyage Truths adapted to their development.

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

The use of the divine gift of common sense would teach the opponents of the philosophy that what was shown to be fraud was not spiritualism and that a doctrine that thrives in the midst of the bitterest oppression and grows in the fire of persecution has some measure of truth in its keeping to give it vitality.

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

Is God asleep that he should cease to be all that he was to the prophets of the past?

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

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

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

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

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

To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.

Benjamin Fish Austin
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