The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to… — Janet Montgomery Copy Share Image
“But in 1621 the Puritan leaders decreed that Christmas would not be celebrated at all in Plymouth.” — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW):… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think our society is fragmented. Messages regarding human sexuality have always been mixed in America. We are a schizophrenic nation. We… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain,… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,-- Dying hectic… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady Copy Share Image
“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the zeal of Boston's rank-and-file marathoners rivaled, and in some ways echoed, the religious passion of Nathaniel Howe and his congregation.… — John Brant Copy Share Image
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the… — James Young Copy Share Image
Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate,… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
“People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential… — Edward Payson Roe Copy Share Image
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“Bells and incense!” scoffs the Puritan, but God gave people ears and noses. Are those organs of perception too humble to bring… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
![“It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.” quote by Finley Peter Dunne](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5a1/finley-peter-dunne-8007_culinary_it-thanksgiving-was-founded-by-the-purit_3100794.jpg)
![“As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.” quote by Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9e3/jonathan-edwards-770_beam_as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-mus_393914.png)
![“[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the…” quote by Thomas Watson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/112/thomas-watson-4209_ark_concerning-the-word-preached-do-we-prize_2264165.jpg)
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