The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs 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
Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe. — Heywood Broun 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
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel 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
My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. — Anonymous 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
I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
“The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we… — Robert Staughton Lynd 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
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
Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing… — John Bunyan 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 truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No… — H. L. Mencken 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
When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld… — William Carey Copy Share Image
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — Anonymous 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 Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson 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
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
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 great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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