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.

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

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

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

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.

Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sometimes love is hard. The more you practice loving yourself, it becomes second nature. Love yourself no matter what."

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.

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

Health requires healthy food.

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

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.