Puritan Quotes · Page 8

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all…

— J. C. Ryle

“No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains…

— John Frame

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

— Francisco Costa

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan…

— Stephen King

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.…

— Sherwin Wine

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

“...the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne