Quotes from Benjamin Fish Austin

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

Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value.

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.

It is easy to see what is heresy today, but who can tell what will be heresy tomorrow.

The heterodoxy of one age will become the orthodoxy of the next.

The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire.

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.

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.

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

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.

It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago.

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.