219:âA 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.â
228:âThe 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 Lutherâs 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 Wesleyâs 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.
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293:âReligion is the soulâs cry for the divine, the ever-longing, ever-seeking, ever-aspiring and perpetual quest after its eternal source divine. The best expression of religion is love- not some vague emotion toward a personal god- but love felt, cultivated and exemplified towards oneâs fellowmanâ
243:âWhy 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.â
257:âI 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 lifeâ
309:âWe know as well as history can teach us that all religions are one and the same- all the outgrowth of manâs moral nature, differing only according to the intelligence and advancement of the people among whom they originatedâ
207:âWe know as well as history can teach us that all religions are one and the same- all the outgrowth of manâs moral nature, differing only according to the intelligence and advancement of the people among whom they originatedâ
321:âThe school is the hope of the futureâŚthose schools which encourage free enquiry, emphasise the teachings of science, and blaze out new pathways of progress for the enquiring mind are among the worldâs greatest treasuresâ
213:âEvery 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 bookâ
301:âWe are all of us, as well as all things animate and inanimate, enveloped surrounded by a very complex yet subtle emanation which, to the clairvoyant eye indicate(s) our constitution, our passions, our ideasâ
234:âThe 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.â
237:âWhy 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?â
240:âHave we not the right top 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?â
225:âJesusâ teachings were never set before his followers as a finality. God has dealt with Humanity as we deal with children. He has given to everyâŚage Truths adapted to their developmentâ
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263:âWe 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 popularâ
195:âNo 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 ennuiâ
289:âMan is a child of God and there are no limits to manâs power any more than there are to Godâs. Manâs life is an ascending scale of eternal progressionâ
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