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 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
democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism;… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three–your own lust, Satan's… — John Flavel 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
If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have… — Benjamin Franklin 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
The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“As to what the things were—explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was “those ones,” or “the old ones,” though… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means… — Richard Baxter 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
They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“some British settlers of colonial America carried across the sea Puritan, biblical, scientific, and Aristotelian rationalizations of slavery and human hierarchy.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The knowledge of Christ is profound and large. All other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean. Though something… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and… — William Whately Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. — Kenneth Hare Copy Share Image
In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage. — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
