Benjamin Fish Austin: Man

Benjamin Fish Austin was Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“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

Sermon (1899)

Men , Truth , Teachers , Personality

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

Benjamin Fish Austin

Sermon (1899)

Love , Truth

“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

Sermon (1899)

People , Religion , History , Intelligence

“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

Sermon (1899)

God , Truth , Books , Reading