(108 quotes found)
“[To err is human, to forgive is divine] . . . but this does not make it desirable to make as many errors as possible.”
Roger Williams
“Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.”
“That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.”
“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.”
“God requireth not a uniformity of religion.”
“The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.”
“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.”
“By concord little things grow great, by discord the greatest come to nothing.”
“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.”
“Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.”