Quotes from Roger Williams
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.
- Roger Williams
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
- Roger Williams
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
- Roger Williams
God is too large to be housed under one roof.
- Roger Williams
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.
- Roger Williams
Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils
- Roger Williams
The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.
- Roger Williams
That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.
- Roger Williams
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
- Roger Williams
All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.
- Roger Williams
Sometimes love is hard. The more you practice loving yourself, it becomes second nature. Love yourself no matter what."
- Roger Williams
Sometimes the truth is stupid.
- Roger Williams