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
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“He was Anglo-Saxon enough, Puritan and student of history enough to be sensible of the efficacy of blood and iron, at times,… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Well, it seems insane,” Bob finally said. “But it comes from our Puritan ancestors. Who were kind of insane, when you think… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the… — Archibald Henry Grimke Copy Share Image
Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God… — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
“Father Brown smiled faintly. ‘I suppose in one sense,’ he said, ‘it was a matter of special knowledge; almost a professional matter,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential… — Edward Payson Roe Copy Share Image
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?! — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
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