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.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

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

A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body when they are not taken, and antidotes are received against them.

My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils