Roger Williams Quotes

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

How do we stop ourselves from blowing each other up because we think that God wants us to blow each other up.

Religion can turn holy stories into flaming swords.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

You know, these guys want to talk about God; 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.' Listen, I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.

In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.

And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!