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
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
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
By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving… — Anthony W. Ivins 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. — H. L. Mencken 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 Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are… — John Updike 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
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
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
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
“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
“O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
