Jon Coffee > Jon's Quotes

“The truths he taught; his doctrines respecting man and God; the relation between man and man, and man and God, with the duties that grow out of that relation, are always the same, and can never change till man ceases to be man, and creation vanishes into nothing. No; forms and opinions change and perish; but the Word of God cannot”
― Anonymous

“It does not demand all men to think alike, but to think uprightly, and get as near as possible to the truth; not all men to _live_ alike, but to live holy, and get as near as possible to a life perfectly divine.”
― Anonymous

“But Christianity gives us the largest liberty of the sons of God, and were all men Christians after the fashion of Jesus, this variety would be a thousand times greater than now; for Christianity is not a system of doctrines, but rather a method of attaining oneness with God. It demands, therefore, a good life of piety within, of purity without, and gives the promise that who does God's `will, shall know of God's doctrine.”
― Anonymous

“A life supported by the principle and quickened by the sentiment of religion, if true to both, is always the same thing in Nazareth or New England.”
― Anonymous

“idols. it would make us revere the holy words spoken by "godly men of old," but revere still more the word of God spoken through Conscience, Reason, and Faith, as the holiest of all.”
― Anonymous

“Each will represent something of the truth; but no one the whole. It seems the whole race of man is needed to do justice to the whole of truth, as "the whole church, to preach the whole gospel.”
― Anonymous

“Let then the Transient pass, fleet as it will, and may God send us some new manifestation of the Christian faith, that shall stir men's hearts as they were never stirred; some new Word, which shall teach us what we are, and renew us all in the image of God; some better life, that shall fulfill the Hebrew prophecy, and pour out the spirit of God on young men and maidens, and old men and children; which shall realize the Word of Christ, and give us the comforter, who shall reveal all”
― Anonymous