Roger Williams Quotes

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• The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.
• God is too large to be housed under one roof,
• God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
• An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that…
• When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of…
• No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist,…
• Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils
• The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.
• But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table…
• We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.
• Health requires healthy food.
• When in doubt, use nutrition first.
• Sometimes the truth is stupid.
• There is no regularly constituted church of Christ on earth, nor any person qualified to administer any church ordinances; nor can there be until new…
• That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.
• All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
• God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of…
• All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders…
• Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
• No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist,…

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