I want this president to succeed and I think America does too, and I'm going to do everything I can to help him, this is big moment in the history of our country to dismantle this horrible Obamacare. Roger Williams More Quotes by Roger Williams More Quotes From Roger Williams 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 unlimited-potential helping world 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 religious law order 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. Roger Williams hurtful men believe The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people. Roger Williams sovereign authority people 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 church earth christ There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any. Roger Williams practice prayer sea God is too large to be housed under one roof. Roger Williams roof Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils Roger Williams stink worship 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 civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls. Roger Williams war civilization jesus 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 wall atheism garden How frequent, how constant ought we to be, like Christ Jesus our example, in doing good, especially to the souls of men and especially to the household of faith (yea, even to our enemies), when we remember that this is our seed time, of which every minute is precious, and that as our sowing is, so shall be our eternal harvest. Roger Williams soul men jesus There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good laws and good examples nourished and trained up in; so that civil places and trust and credit need not be monopolized into the hands of church members (who sometimes are not fitted for public office), while all others are deprived and despoiled of their natural and civil rights and liberties. Roger Williams honesty men hands 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 religious flesh jesus That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it. Roger Williams weapons church needs The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task. Roger Williams heal-itself medicine health The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's lands. Roger Williams land christian rivers 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 spiritual christian civilization Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries. Roger Williams men mean country When in doubt, use nutrition first. Roger Williams use doubt firsts Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world. Roger Williams dear grain world
