Roger Williams

An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and…

— Roger Williams

'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands…

— Roger Williams

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of…

— Roger Williams

Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], England…

— Roger Williams

But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of…

— Roger Williams

“...it is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of…

— Roger Williams

Health requires healthy food.

— Roger Williams

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

— Roger Williams

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

— Roger Williams

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

— Roger Williams

The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues…

— Roger Williams

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

— Roger Williams

Is it possible that since I hunt, I may be hunting for the life of my Savior and the blood of the…

— Roger Williams

Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties…

— Roger Williams

The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the…

— Roger Williams

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

— Roger Williams

While I deplored and denounced the incivilities of Quakerism in my day (such as the going naked in public by some at…

— Roger Williams

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

— Roger Williams

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

— Roger Williams

All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges,…

— Roger Williams

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

— Roger Williams

Whatever tumults and strifes await God's witnesses, it remains clear that the doctrine of persecution for the sake of conscience is most…

— Roger Williams

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of…

— Roger Williams

There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is…

— Roger Williams

If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall…

— Roger Williams