To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism — John Lane Copy Share Image
“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God… — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Well, it seems insane,” Bob finally said. “But it comes from our Puritan ancestors. Who were kind of insane, when you think… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Beware of singing divine psalms for an ordinary recreation, as do men of impure spirits, who sing holy psalms intermingled with profane… — Lewis Bayly Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism;… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is one of the strangest of historical paradoxes that the King James Bible, whose whole purpose had been nation-building in the… — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?! — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains… — John Frame Copy Share Image
Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
