All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
Roger WilliamsIt is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.
Roger WilliamsI do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.
Roger WilliamsGod requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
Roger WilliamsThere 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 WilliamsEven if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties he is forbidden to call down fire from heaven, that is, to procure or inflict any corporal punishment upon offenders in religious doctrine or practice, remembering Christ's admonition that He came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Roger Williams