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

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“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”

“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”

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

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

“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.”

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

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