Roger Williams Quotes (60 Quotes)


    He's losing a lot of fluid, ... It's a complication that we don't fully understand, so we don't know why it's going on because he's had a lot of treatment. We have just changed all of his antibiotics to try to get on top of it. All we can do is try. We won't know if it has any benefits for at least 12 hours.

    I'm not confident about a recovery, I've never said I'm confident about a recovery because he is so generally ill and can be affected so easily by any infection, any setback. But he is better than he was yesterday.

    He just had a way with people. I've never heard anyone say a derogatory word. He was a remarkable per- son.

    When they 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, and made his garden a wilderness, as at this day. And that there fore if He will eer please to restore His garden and paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world

    All one can say is that the bleeding, we think, is easing -- but he is very seriously ill on a ventilator, ... Quite what will happen over the next 24 hours is difficult to say. He could pull through or he could get worse.


    Roger Williams refused to continue as pastor on the grounds that there was ... ' ... no regularly-constituted church on earth, nor any person authorized to administer any Church ordinance nor could there be until, new apostles are sent by the great Head of the Church, for whose coming, he is seeking.'

    It's an event where the rider has to use their horse a lot more,

    Whether we will bring him off the ventilator today I would doubt because he's very safe when he's on it,

    We're trying to deal with a situation that seems horrific and trying to control everything we can and bring this to a resolution as quickly as possible.

    He's a little better this morning, very definitely a little better. All his measurements are somewhat improved, and I think the bleeding is a little less.

    The long-term chances, if he gets through the first week, are very good,

    Remittance transfer across the world is becoming more accessible. There are more points of access, and the rates have become cheaper...it is getting easier both from the financial and convenience standpoint.

    One of my major jobs as secretary of state is to get people to vote, and I'm going to do my job.

    He didn't have a very good night, ... He had a disturbed night and had to be put back on the ventilator, but he is still very alert although sedated on the ventilator.

    The Public Health Minister who should have done her homework instead defended industry. But critical mass has been reached and many other campaigns have been initiated to eliminate aspartame.

    We are about 14 per cent ahead of last year (2004) for inbound remittances.

    We have no idea what could have happened. The hardest part of all of this is that there is no reason for it.

    We did have it some weeks ago - it seems to be coming back to some degree again, the loss of blood, which is a worry.

    There's something about Penn State that creates intense loyalty. We have a lot of people who come to Penn State and they are transformed when they get here. They get attached and it stays with them all their lives.

    There is so much natural bloom (juvenile oyster stock) in the water, ... We try to optimize the culture methods.

    While the brain is working, you go on trying, ... Life depends on the brain function and that is still working. He's just desperately ill man in (intensive care) and we struggle on.

    I told him it wasn't and that the person who gave that opinion was not authorized to do so.

    He had a disturbed night but he is still very alert, very sedated on the ventilator. He remains critically ill but fairly stable.

    To err is human, to forgive is divine . . . but this does not make it desirable to make as many errors as possible.

    I'm about to do an event, in which he'll be at, ... I love playing for the presidents. But then again, I love to play for everyone.

    We're going to have to see Bob Kennedy's 4-H card before we can let him enter this. I think he's let his membership expire. And another thing - he had a secretary from the office carry that tree in here. He didn't carry it in himself, so how do we know it's his And even if those two things don't disqualify him, our 'ugly' rule would knock him out of the competition, anyway.

    We do not know when he was born, nor exactly when he died. We do not know what he looked like. We cannot visit his home, because it went up in flames long ago. Although he was a preacher, no sermon of his survives. During his lifetime, not a single monument was erected in his honor and, at his death, no carved stone marked his grave. He was -- or so it appeared -- a forgotten man.

    Last Friday, we didn't really expect him to do anything but get worse whereas as in fact, each day he's made some improvement. I don't want to give you the impression that we're jumping with joy or he's definitely going to recover. It's just a step in the right direction.

    Well, we don't expect him to look pink and wonderful, do we

    You can have it (the land) as long as you keep it wild,

    I just cannot accept that any measure that results in an increase in alcohol consumption in this country as a whole can be justified,

    I don't want to go too far or raise too many hopes but (he's) a little better than he was last night. I never said I give him a good chance, I said we go on treating day by day. He's a very sick man.

    This is a guy who irons his work jeans and hangs them up. His house was meticulous. He took great pride in it.

    We see in our wards young people in their 30s with advanced liver diseases, their life ruined. I see liver disease all around increasing,

    In 13 years, this is the first time the feds have supported TAG funding (through a grant), ... It's always been a huge push from the state. The federal government hasn't always supported this in terms of finances, so it's a nice change.

    Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.

    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.

    H was very depressed, but is still fighting away, as he always does, ... We are just hoping we can control the bleeding.

    This is a guy that has never smoked, never drank, has never done drugs. He was just a model citizen.

    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.


    He is serious but improving, with the emphasis on improving, ... The infection has caused him to be severely ill, but he is certainly responding to treatment and we hope to move him out of intensive care in the next 24 hours.

    I don't look at this as any sort of personal victory. We have a chance to change the leadership and the dynamics, dynamics I thought were destructive.

    His performance today was great as usual. He didn't fall, what else can you ask for


    There is really no return from that situation. I can't be precise as to the time, but it is the final stages of this illness.

    I go into schools and show kids that there is music other than rap,

    His brain is active, his pupils are reactive, ... We are not keeping people alive that aren't alive and we certainly wouldn't do that.

    Ashford Price and his family and staff have enabled everyone to have access to this underground adventure while learning about its origins and role in providing shelter for our earliest ancestors who first lived there.

    I have to tell you that his hours are numbered now. It is just not possible to recover. I'm afraid Mr. Best is coming to the end of the long road of his ill health.


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