Roger Williams Quotes

#1. 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 of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

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#2. 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, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God.

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

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. I'm playing better than I've ever played, and I m feeling better. I have this crazy idea that the best part of my career is ahead of me. I really believe that with all my heart.

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#7. Given eternity in which to work, everyone would eventually stumble into the abyss, just as all matter would eventually be swallowed by black holes.

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#8. God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

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#9. When in doubt, use nutrition first.

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#10. Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

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

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#12. Sometimes the truth is stupid.

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

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#14. It is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of traditional hypocrisy, which turns and dulls the very edge of all conscience either toward God or man.

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

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#16. [W]hen they have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of Separation between the Garden of the Church and the Wildernes of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall it selfe, removed the Candlestick, &c. and made his Garden a Wildernesse, as at this day.

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

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#18. When in doubt, try nutrition first.

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#19. 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 Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

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#20. God is too large to be housed under one roof,

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#21. Only my loyal Steinway piano endures. Be it beaten or caressed, its gorgeous tone remains.

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#22. 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 of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.

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#23. 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 apostles are sent by the Great Head of the Church for whose coming I am seeking.

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

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#25. Nutrients always act as a team. Comprehensive nutritional science must rise above the traditional piece-meal approach.

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