Roger Williams Quotes

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

Health requires healthy food.

We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.

Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'

When in doubt, try nutrition first.

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

The magistrates of whom Paul wrote were natural, ungodly, persecuting, and yet lawful magistrates, to be obeyed in all lawful civil things.

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.