Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine." — Samuel Rutherford 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
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
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
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
My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances. — Lee Marvin Copy Share Image
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low. — John Flavel 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
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
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
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their… — James Frey Copy Share Image
My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that… — Charles Dickens 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
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
I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore 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
[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
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
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
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
“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
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural… — Ralph Barton Perry 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
“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
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
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