Quotes About Roger Williams

#1. Roger Williams died sometime during the early months of 1683. Some of what he said and wrote during his lifetime belongs to the seventeenth century. But much of his historical and philosophical record speaks to us across the centuries.

Alan E. Johnson

#2. What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have that right.

C.P. Snow

#3. [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.

Roger Williams

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

Roger Williams

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

Roger Williams

#6. When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

Roger Ross Williams

#7. Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals.

Roger Ross Williams

#8. When in doubt, try nutrition first.

Roger Williams

#9. American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

Roger Ross Williams

#10. Imagine that you're a gay man and you're spending all your time with people who believe you are possessed by the devil.

Roger Ross Williams

#11. Why so much interest in Uganda? Why are American conservatives lobbing for hate? The answer is that they feel they have lost the culture war here at home and are exporting their outdated ideas to the developing world.

Roger Ross Williams

#12. 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.

Roger Williams

#13. I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.

Roger Ross Williams

#14. I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, "Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?".

Roger Ross Williams

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

Roger Williams

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

Roger Williams

#17. I wish I could play like Roger Federer.

Serena Williams

#18. 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.

Roger Williams

#19. They embrace them because they represent everything that America represents: money, power, and freedom. Why else would you see an old Ugandan woman respectfully listen to a 22-year-old white girl from America telling her what she should or shouldn't believe?

Roger Ross Williams

#20. I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

Roger Ross Williams

#21. 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.

Roger Williams

#22. After I read about Uganda's now famous "kill the gays" bill, I wanted to explore the religious forces behind it. As a gay man, I wanted to understand the folks who wanted to kill me and why.

Roger Ross Williams

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

Roger Williams

#24. Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

Roger Williams

#25. 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.

Roger Williams

#26. 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.

Roger Williams

#27. I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover.

Charles Williams

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

Roger Williams

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

Roger Williams

#30. 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

#31. 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.

Roger Williams

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

Roger Williams

#33. God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

Roger Williams

#34. When in doubt, use nutrition first.

Roger Williams

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

Roger Williams

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

Roger Williams

#37. I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

Roger Ross Williams

#38. Sometimes the truth is stupid.

Roger Williams

#39. The musicians are good and their music is catchy - it pulls the kids in in droves. Mike Bickle admitted to me that the music was a big part of their success at attracting young people.

Roger Ross Williams

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

Roger Williams

#41. I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.

Ted Williams

#42. I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.

Roger Ross Williams

#43. 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.

Roger Williams

#44. Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

Roger Ross Williams