“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
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 law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. — John Flavel 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
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
“...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
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
Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she… — James Russell Lowell 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
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
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
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
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for… — Alice Morse Earle 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
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
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida 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
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
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady 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
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
“A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity, before the church had been corrupted by… — Nathaniel Philbrick 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
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation… — Leland Ryken 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
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
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate,… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any… — Alice Morse Earle 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
![“As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.” quote by Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e3/jonathan-edwards-770_beam_as-god-delights-in-his-own-beauty-he-mus_393914.jpg)
![“England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. Despite our belief [that] we are a 'gentle' people we have, in reality, a cruel and callous streak in…” quote by Colin MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3fc/colin-macinnes-53584_baby_england-is-after-all-the-land-where-chil_450470.jpg)
