Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances. — Lee Marvin Copy Share Image
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine." — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't… — Rene Auberjonois Copy Share Image
What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free; pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
“He was Anglo-Saxon enough, Puritan and student of history enough to be sensible of the efficacy of blood and iron, at times,… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times.… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake.… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“The gospel brings tidings, glad tidings indeed, To mourners in Zion, who want to be freed, From sin and Satan, and Mount… — William Gadsby Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
What I like is horror movies, including '80s slasher movies that politically I have all kinds of problems with. Which is an… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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