Benjamin Fish Austin Quotes
1850–1933 Canada
Benjamin Fish Austin (10 September 1850 – 10 January 1933) was a nineteenth century Canadian educator, Methodist minister, and Spiritualist.
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To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.
Sermon (1899)
Is God asleep that he should cease to be all that he was to the prophets of the past?
Sermon (1899)
It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago.
Sermon (1899)
Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value
Sermon (1899)
The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire
Christ has recognised and declared woman's equality with man
On Women (1890)
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?
Sermon (1899)
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?
Sermon (1899)
I do not believe in infallible men, nor in an infallible church, nor in an infallible book
The heterodoxy of one age will become the orthodoxy of the next
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
Sermon (1899)
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
On Women (1890)
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
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.
Sermon (1899)
It is easy to see what is heresy today, but who can tell what will be heresy tomorrow
There is no divine Truth, and no impure Truth. There is no secular Truth, the Truth taught in the college or the school house is as sacred as Truth taught from the pulpit
Sermon (1899)