It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley 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
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
A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on… — Ali Sina 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
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart. — Adam Nicolson 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
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or… — James Hillman 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
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
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
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
America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. — Thomas Brooks 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
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So… — Anne Bradstreet 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
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 new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ...… — Mark Thornton 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
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
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