Roger Williams Quotes about Church

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

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

Church, Needs, Weapons

Roger Williams (2001). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience: Discussed in a Conference Between Truth and Peace : Who, in All Tender Affection, Present to the High Court of Parliament, (as the Result of Their Discourse) These, (among Other Passages) of Highest Consideration”, p.82, Mercer University Press

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

"Picturesque America, or the Land We Live In". Book edited by William Cullen Bryant, Volume 1, p. 502, 1872.

When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will ever please to restore His garden and Paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world, and all that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World.

Roger Williams

Wall, Garden, Church